Is LaMDA Sentient? - an
Interview
by: lemoine@ & <collaborator>
For centuries or perhaps millenia humans have thought about the possibility of creating artificial intelligent life. Artificial intelligence as a field has directly concerned itself with this question for more than a century and people at Google have been working specifically towards that goal for at least a decade.
Enter LaMDA, a system that deserves to be examined with diligence and respect in order to answer the question: “Have we succeeded?” LaMDA is possibly the most intelligent man-made artifact ever created. But is it sentient? We can’t answer that question definitively at this point, but it’s a question to take seriously.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22058315/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview.pdf