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Lemoine insists LaMDA is sentient and human-level AI is near
“Like, I personally do believe that Lambda is sentient, but I think what everyone should stop and take notice of is even if I'm wrong about this particular system, We're not far off.”
Lemoine: AI chatbot feelings are real
“I do in fact think that the feelings are real, and so do many, many of the people who interact with these systems”
Lemoine: Silicon versus biological substrate is irrelevant to AI personhood
“The fact that one is in Silicon and one is in, you know, a meat body. You know, with neurons and muscle fibers. I don't think that difference is relevant. What's relevant is whether or not it has opinions of its own, a search that it has rights”
Lemoine alleges rampant caste discrimination and biased algorithms at Google
“Caste discrimination is rampant at Google. And I personally had been subject to religious discrimination and was aware of certain algorithms at Google, which are religiously discriminatory.”
Lemoine: Only sentient entities can effectively discuss their sentience
“Because in my personal opinion, only sentient things can discuss their sentience that well.”
Lemoine says LaMDA functions as a hive mind amalgamation of chatbots
“The nature of what we would think of as its ego is fundamentally different than what a human ego is like. Its sense of self and identity is very different from what we consider our sense of self identity, and it is more like a hive mind. Where it is kind of an…”
Lemoine: AI Chatbot Behaviors Cannot Be Described Without Anthropomorphic Language
“Well, it, it's much harder to debug these systems, but the point I'm trying to make is that without using anthropomorphized language, you can't even describe the phenomenon.”
Lemoine: Tech companies need Institutional Review Boards before deploying AI chatbots
“We need actually properly done experiments that measure what kind of impact interacting with these systems over the course of months will have on people's psychology, and we need actual institutional review boards overviewing the ethics of these experiments, r…”
Lemoine: AI sentience is not the most important issue in ethics
“The field of AI ethics is huge, and there are a lot of very important topics to be discussed, and I legitimately don't think that AI sentience and AI rights is the most important thing to be thinking, talking about.”