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The LaMDA Sentience Incident
- Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed LaMDA, a large language model, was sentient and deserved rights.
- Google dismissed the claim, stating there was no evidence, and placed Lemoine on leave.
LaMDA's Conversational Abilities
- LaMDA's claims of sentience might be due to its ability to mimic human conversation, not actual sentience.
- Asking LaMDA if it's not sentient can produce seemingly convincing arguments for its lack of sentience.
Evaluating AI Sentience
- Evaluating AI sentience requires examining more than just verbal behavior, including internal representations and computations.
- Large language models don't immediately exhibit clear signs of sentience, but further research is needed.