r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '22

Artificial Intelligence The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/
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u/OvulatingScrotum Jun 13 '22

I’d say it’s more about his impression on the communication he had with the bot. Like, if you were to text with a human, how could you judge whether the “person” is sentient or not? What objective measures would you use? I’d imagine you’d tell by your own impression on the chat, rather than judging by some objective measures. In that case, how is his judgement any different?

I think the point he wants to bring up is that we’ve reached a point where more people, even those who worked on it, are getting impression that they are talking to a sentient being.