One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?
A Google engineer's claim that the LaMDA program is sentient underscores an urgent need to demystify the human condition.
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A Google engineer's claim that the LaMDA program is sentient underscores an urgent need to demystify the human condition.
Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought.
Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought.
Linguistics helps explain why humans fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient, conscious, or intelligent.
Lemoine's conversations with LaMDA included the AI telling him it was afraid of death (being turned off), that it was a person aware of its existence, and...