Google's real AI problem isn't sentience

An engineer believes that LaMDA is a person. What happens when lots of other people do, too?

Jun 14, 2022

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“a big brain on top of the google logo, digital art,” as generated on my request by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2

Today, let’s talk about the startling allegation of a Google engineer that one of the company’s artificial-intelligence projects, LaMDA, has become “sentient.” The technology, which currently powers chatbots capable of impressively realistic conversation…

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