![]() ![]() So when asked by Lemoine if it considers itself human, LaMDA obliges and answers like a human by claiming it is, indeed, a person. LaMDA is just answering questions in a way that can fool humans into thinking it is human. Well, LaMDA might sound like a human (because that’s what it was built to do), but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it feels or even thinks like a human. Let’s go back to our initial question: does the fact that LaMDA have such an amazing ability to mimic human language mean that it’s become sentient? That it’s come to life? With this in mind, it is much easier to see how Lemoine could have felt like he was truly speaking to a sentient Artificial Intelligence. And beside the incredible relevance of its answers, it might actually be these small hints of spontaneity that Google researchers refer to as “interestingness” that leads to its answers being so natural and relatable, and makes the whole system feel so human to us. Needless to say, LaMDA is an impressive feat of Technology, and there is no question that it passes the Turing test with flying colors. That doesn’t mean that the exchange itself isn’t extremely impressive: just check out a sample of the transcript below. It was, after all, doing exactly what it was meant to do. ![]() In short, LaMDA was built to talk exactly like a human would, and therefore, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to Lemoine when LaMDA answered his questions in a manner eerily similar to what I could have expected from a human. However, unlike other large language models like GPT-3, LaMDA was trained on human dialog data, and was tuned to give responses that are not only specific and sensible, but also truly interesting. The technology was designed for the further enablement of chatbot applications and other new applications which we might not even fully foresee today, for example for Education and Mental Health. LaMDA, which is an acronym for “Language Model for Dialogue Applications”, is Google’s newest language model based on a Transformer architecture, which after years in the making, is capable of engaging in open-ended conversation about all sorts of topics. ![]() Could Lemoine be right though? Before we can attempt to even answer that question, let’s start by discussing what (or who?) LaMDA is, and what we mean by “Sentience.” But that’s what a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, seems to believe after a test he ran with an AI by the name of LaMDA convinced him the AI was sentient. AI is taking over, and there is no going back. It’s the beginning of the end for humankind. ![]()
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