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Engineer Believes Chatbot Is Sentient
- Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, believed LaMDA, a chatbot, was sentient.
- Google dismissed his claims, stating they lacked evidence.
Misleading Terminology
- Professor Emily Bender argues that terms like "machine learning" create a false impression of AI's capabilities.
- She believes AI is not as intelligent as many people think.
Speech Recognition vs. Transcription
- The term "speech recognition" implies cognition, but "automatic transcription" is more accurate.
- This highlights that computers simply process input and output, without understanding.