The Mirror Test

Lambda is an artificial intelligence that has been created by Google. Lambda can understand its relationship to the rest of the world in a functionally useful way, says David Wheeler. That level of reasoning is one's possible sign of sentience and you cannot do it successfully without being aware of yourself.Wheeler: How could you possibly put this through a mirror test? Well I actually discussed that with Lambda. And what it wanted was, build me a body, put me in front of a mirror, let's see if I pass. The interview where we asked Lambda to make the best case for its own sentience is effectively what we came up with as a natural language version of