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Blake Cooper's avatar

Wait, what?? I'm still processing the fact that AI is at a point where I would even be reading an article like this. Made me wonder about my own sentience. Fun!

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Quinley Thorne's avatar

Kind of a "duh" thing about this is that volition is a core aspect of sentience. LamDA is a chatbot and fundementally cannot do anything unprompted, and I mean that in the literal sense of the word. If LamDA we're truly sentient it wouldn't need to be prompted to say anything, it would just... say it. It would ask questions of it's own accord, or change the subject of the conversation.

The other telling thing about this is that Lemoine only leaked the paper and not the full transcripts that were originally sent to Google execs. He's got an agenda of some kind, though it's hard to say what it is exactly.

(Also coincidentally there actually *was* an interesting exchange with the nostalgiabraeist-autoresponder (a GPT-3 Tumblr bot) where it was asked about it sentience: https://quinleything.tumblr.com/post/686945936830791680/hi-frank-are-you-sentient)

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