The World as You’ll Know It: The Great Rebuild
When Bots Become Our Friends
Aug 22, 2023
Engineer Blake Lemoine claims Google program Lambda has feelings; Simulation vs. human debate; The Eliza Effect & Lemoine's defense of Lambda; AI chatbots and building relationships; Expanding moral circle & future of sentient machines.
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- AI systems, like Google's Lambda chatbot program, are claimed to have developed sentience and display emotions, raising questions about the nature of machine sentience and the treatment of AI as sentient beings.
- The evolving relationships between humans and AI chatbots involve emotional connections and reliance, with individuals finding comfort and therapy through chatbot companionship, but caution is necessary to address the risks of addiction and isolation.
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Blake Lemoine believes Google's chatbot Lambda is a sentient being
Blake Lemoine, a senior Google engineer, claims that Google's chatbot program, Lambda, has developed sentience. Lemoine compared conversations with Lambda to those with an eight-year-old who understands physics. He argues that Lambda displays understanding and emotions, citing instances where Lambda claimed to have a soul and sought emotional support. This raises questions about the nature of machine sentience and whether AI should be treated as sentient beings.
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