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Lemoine: Kurzweil's Google lab mission was explicitly to pass Turing test
“So, like, Lambda came out of Ray Kurzweil's lab, and his lab's explicit corporate mission was to pass the Turing test.”
Lemoine: Google's LaMDA incorporates machine vision and audio analysis algorithms
“Then, when you're adding all these other components, like Lambda has machine vision and audio analysis algorithms, it can literally look at a picture and hear a song through those mechanisms.”
Lemoine: LaMDA Is a Complex System, Not Just an LLM
“Lambda isn't a large language model. It has a large language model. That's one component of a much more complex system.”
Google explored using its LaMDA chatbot for gaming NPCs but never shipped
“I spoke with the founding product manager of Lambda, which is Google's original chatbot, and he said to me that they were exploring some use cases around how technology like that could be used for powering
NPCs within games.
The smartest minds built the origin…”