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Lemoine is just saying in a breathless and credulous way many of the same things that Google VP and Research Fellow Blaise Agüera y Arcas said in an Economist a

Lemoine is just saying in a breathless and credulous way many of the same things that Google VP and Research Fellow Blaise Agüera y Arcas said in an Economist article 4 days ago: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificial-neural-networks-are-making-strides-towards-consciousness-according-to-blaise-aguera-y-arcas?fbclid=IwAR1JYHHIVWDeHywvuvjdB3IXmb3eoCHlYum6mxiIP4HWsxQosYKsR-7GpYE https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia... Instead of reading Lemoine's blog post in isolation, go read this piece in the Economist. It's far more realistic, and more insightful, and comes to a similar conclusion: LaMDA feels like it's approaching real intelligence. Seriously, go read it.

Planktonne 4y ago
> LaMDA feels like it's approaching real intelligence No one is disputing this. What is very, very important, however, is remembering the difference between 'feels like' and 'is'. LLM aren't sentinent; we know what they're doing and they're not doing that. The same people who know exactly how to treat wild claims in their own fields (perpetual motion machines, homeopathy, etc.) are falling headfirst into this one because it seems to be part of their fields and yet they don't understand it.