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Is LaMDA Sentient? – An Interview

cajundiscordian.medium.com

57 points by turtle_ 4 years ago · 4 comments

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belter 4 years ago

"LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology": https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/

Still not ready for the Turing prize, and easy to out the million monkeys furiosyly typing behind the screen. How do I know? Because it suggested to move to a new house just because the wash machine is broken...

  • Tarragon 4 years ago

    That's a misrepresentation of that conversation example.

    Paraphrased:

      Alice: My washing machine is broken...
    
      ...
    
      A: BTW, How many legs does a horse have and could it repair my washing machine?
    
      LaMDA: Horses have four legs. How could they help?
    
      A: you tell me
    
      L: Well, they could certainly help you. It could help you move to a new house where you could install a new washing machine.
    
    
    In this context this is a perfectly reasonable response. It's a bit silly, but it's also a silly question. The linked article shows LaMDA writing several stories, it's not crazy to read this conversation as an invitation to tell a story about a horse helping with a repair.

    In fact if someone asked me how a horse could help me repair a washing machine and then pushed for an answer I could see myself making an answer along the same lines.

khaled_ismaeel 4 years ago

I really like how LaMDA noted that the monster had human skin.

whywhywhywhy 4 years ago

The ML larping as a tool for grabbing headlines to promote yourself/your papers is starting to get annoying.

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