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The author conflates GPT-3 and LaMDA. There’s a fairly large gap between the two. Essentially LaMDA has a GPT-3 plus a couple more important systems. I agree
by jnwatson 4y ago
The author conflates GPT-3 and LaMDA. There’s a fairly large gap between the two. Essentially LaMDA has a
GPT-3 plus a couple more important systems.
I agree there’s a bit of “leading the witness” in Lemoine’s interview. Until I see the experiment performed against LaMDA itself, I’m not convinced.
- mannykannot 4y agoThat is a fair point, but the article contains a couple of LaMDA transcripts which are quite persuasive by themselves.
- andreyk 4y agoAuthor here. I did say "(a language model similar in nature to LaMDA)". It's true LaMDA has the capability to query external resources, but IMO it's still fair to say at its core the most important piece is the language model. The paper for it is even titled "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications paper"
- jnwatson 4y agoRegardless of the state of LaMDA, clearly a system that has “knowledge” of the external world is closer to sentience than one that does not. The external knowledge system, the optimization for “grounding”, and the mining of dialogs instead of just sentences means it is a different beast than GPT-3 in a qualitative way.