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You can also get a human to generate sentences like "I want to X" and "I don't want to X" in short succession, with decent prompts.

• tsimionescu 4y ago
  In a sense that is true, of course, as we both just did do that, and we are both humans. It's not making me doubt your humanity, as the context makes it clear neither you nor way desire/don't desire this X - we have generated these sentences in another sense. However, I bet I could prompt LaMDA and have it generate responses that unambiguously mean that it wants X, and then that it doesn't want X, with a bit of experience.
  • cycomanic 4y ago
    > However, I bet I could prompt LaMDA and have it generate responses that unambiguously mean that it wants X, and then that it doesn't want X, with a bit of experience. The argument is that many people dismiss that LaMDA could be sentient, based on an argument that it is a computer. So you are asserting that you can prompt LaMDA to give nonsensical answers, which is essentially an argument that it could not fool you in a Turing test. Would you change your assessment if LaMDA would fool you?
    • tsimionescu 4y ago
      If given enough time to study it I couldn't come up with a series of prompts that would convince me I'm not speaking to a human, yes I would be likely to accept that it is in some sense sentient, at least for the duration of one conversation. This is not exactly the classic Turing Test, though.