Reads as satire to me. > To be sentient is to be aware of yourself in the world; LaMDA simply isn’t. Attempts to clarify the usage of “sentient” by invoking “

Reads as satire to me. > To be sentient is to be aware of yourself in the world; LaMDA simply isn’t. Attempts to clarify the usage of “sentient” by invoking “awareness” and “the world”. Lol, right, now I get it. > What these systems do, no more and no less, is to put together sequences of words, but without any coherent understanding of the world behind them, like foreign language Scrabble players who use English words as point-scoring tools, without any clue about what that mean. Just swinging around this midwit assumption that “words have meaning”. > We in the AI community have our differences, but pretty much all of find the notion that LaMDA might be sentient completely ridiculous. “Don’t be like the weird low status guy who wants to fuck the algorithm.”