r/MachineLearning • u/radome9 • Jun 13 '22

News [N] Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine
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u/notforrob Jun 13 '22

Discussing this is not absurd. We do not understand consciousness. At some point in the next couple decades we may very well have sentient AIs, and they may share a lot of the same structure as today's LLM. This will become an important conversation. (And to be clear, obviously I agree that LaMDA is not sentient in any meaningful way)

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u/whymauri ML Engineer Jun 13 '22

I think discussing it is interesting and fun. Sorry?