Aguera y Arcas: LaMDA models users rather than just receiving human projection
Blaise Aguera y Arcas · Fantasy and Fact: AI, Sentience and The Dangers Of Hype, from World Summit AI · Nov 9, 2022 · at 21:03
Google VP Blaise Aguera y Arcas discusses why interactions with conversational AI systems feel interactive and conscious to users.
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“A chatbot like Lambda is generating a model of the interlocutor. That's part of what it has learned how to do in that unsupervised learning process. And so from that perspective, there's a little more going on than just anthropomorphic projection. There is that sort of hall of mirrors effect.”
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