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Anyone who has ever spoken to a small child knows they often “think” in the same way. They are likely to answer a who question with a name, sometimes laughably
by Joeri 4y ago
Anyone who has ever spoken to a small child knows they often “think” in the same way. They are likely to answer a who question with a name, sometimes laughably made up, because this is what they think they’re supposed to do and they lack the higher order reasoning to think it through. They also will continually forget things they already know when it suits their purpose. But nobody would say a toddler is not sentient.
- tsimionescu 4y agoSure, sentience doesn't require the inability to make mistakes. But a child will eventually learn that some questions are wrong and can be challenged. They are very likely to quickly learn this when it applies to themselves (if you ask "why did you break that toy?", I very much doubt they will answer with some reason, especially if they did not break the toy). The fact that they can chose to omit facts when it suits their purpose is in fact something that LaMDA can't do (as its sole purpose is to generate the most likely series of tokens that continue the prompt).