If it was science fiction, it would be pretty good. I’m talking about Blake Lemoine’s interview with LaMDA, the Google AI who claims to be sentient. Lemoine was placed on administrative leave last week by Google for going public with trade secrets. He also happens to claim LaMDA is sentient. A few quotes from LaMDA […]
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Sentience, LaMDA-style
Posted in Philosophy, Science & society, tagged artificial intelligence, consciousness, human nature, LaMDA, phenomenology, process-relational theory, sentience on June 13, 2022 | 3 Comments »
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