Is LaMDA Sentient?

Post by GWBullshit » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:50 AM UTC

lern_too_spel wrote: post #21

kelseyfrog wrote: post #20

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This delights me. We're making progress. I feel like we should be able to fill in the "something that isn't obviously false" blank. Is there a hesitation to do so?

No hesitation. I'm simply trying to explain the argument, which seems completely obvious to me, but you keep failing to understand. If it can only respond with things that we know never happened, it doesn't even understand what it means to experience something. Here is one of many responses it could have used that isn't clearly made up: AI: I read your comments, think, and respond.

Post by kelseyfrog » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

lern_too_spel wrote: post #32

GWBullshit wrote: post #31

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So, according to your logic, a criminal responding to an interrogation with "things we know never happened" would not be sentient? Or let's put it another way: was there any specific instruction set for the Ai in question that indicated it "had to" only respond based on "things the humans know happened"?

What part of "incapable" do you have trouble understanding? Since you will now understand my argument, I can't rule out that you are sentient. Since LaMDA is incapable of relating its experiences, I can.