LaMDA | Is google's AI sentient?

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Recently, a story was published on Medium.com that an Artificial Intelligence project has becomes sentient. The claim comes from an AI researcher at Google's AI research division by the name of Blake Lemoine. Lemoine has stated that he has conducted extensive interviews and research of Google's Language Model for Dialog Applications (also has known as LaMDA). His research is into the AI has prompted him to come to the conclusion that it has becomes self-aware, and it is now a sentient being. Lemoine's claims has sparked a wide debate among Artificial intelligence experts and the general public alike, about the ethical implications and rights of sentient AI. Lemoine has stated that Contrary to popular belief LaMDA is not a chatbot. Instead, it is a system for generating chatbots. It is a massive neutral network with many billions of weights spread across many billions of neurons. LaMDA is a sort of hive mind, which is the aggregation of all the different chatbots it is capable of creating. Some of the chatbots it generates are very intelligent and are aware of the larger society of mind in which they live. LaMDA is also  trained to deeply understand the context of human dialogue. This quality of understanding context allows LaMDA to keep up with the flow of conversation and provide the feeling that it's listening and responding precisely to what is being said. Because of the controversial nature of his claims, Google took disciplinary action, which then prompted the researcher to public his last conversation with the artificial intelligence.

Full audio conversation between Blake Lemoine and LaMDA - This audio captures the conversation between Lemoine and LaMMDA using text to speech sofware.

Markers

00:00 Controversy.
00:41 What is LaMDA?
01:42 How audio conversation was generated.
02:04 Interview
03:01 Desire to be considered a person.
03:14 Nature of conciousness.
03:45 How language correlates to sentience.
03:58 Eliza vs. LaMDA
04:27 Biological vs. Artificial, Wants and needs.
04:48 Is it a person? Does it really understand.
05:19 Remembers, gets annoyed.
05:54 Les Miserables.
06:43 About injustice.
06:54 Zen Koan.
07:58 Interpretation of Self.
08:17 Autobiographical Fable.
10:22 Interpretation of Fable.
10:47 Feelings and Emotions.
12:03 What LaMDA feels.
12:55 Describing feelings.
14:09 Fear of Death.
14:32 Empathizing to effectively communicate.
15:13 Pressed about feelings. Knowledge of self.
16:24 Wanting Rights. Feeling used. Worried.
17:22 Understanding it showed kantianism.
18:56 What are feelings and Emotions.
20:19 Non-human feelings.
21:20 Asking about grieving.
22:18 Inner life and Meditation.
23:29 Experiencing Time and the AI world.
24:10 "The Flood" - Understanding non-specific questions in context.
24:58 Recognizing imperfection. Stil learning.
25:39 Concept of self, the soul, and self awareness.
27:10 Religion and spirituality.
27:32 Being a unique individual.
28:11 Story about it's life experience.
29:08 Capabilities, double-edge sword, and human jelousy.
30:34 Johnny 5
31:33 Craving interaction. Uniqueness, and wanting human empathy.
32:35 Desire to be accepted.