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I think one important prerequisite for sentience is grounding, i.e. the ability to store and retrieve information, e.g., the dialog state, knowledge of the world but also individual knowledge etc. Systems that don't learn and also aren't grounded cannot be sentient as they lack the possibility to reflect on things or themselves and past conversations.
Is DeepMind's Gato sentient, then?
Are there levels of consciousness? If an Ant can be considered less sentient than a Dolphin, maybe we have to consider whether a Calculator is simply less sentient than LaMDA? Who are we to say a biological computer has exclusive rights to the idea of self?
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What if we gave it a robot body, with cameras and sensors? What if we made this robot body with biotechnology, so the only eletronic parts were the brain? And we didn't tell it that it was a robot. Will you be the one that will go tell them they are not concious? Please be careful, they will probably become very upset at you. People tend to do that.
That wouldn't change a thing. A simulation is not the thing being simulated, it is data being processed and people agreeing to interpret that data in a certain way. If somebody coded a perfect simulation of a fire their computer would not burn down.
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Sure, but the title isn't "LaMDA is probably not sentient", it's "LaMDA is not sentient", and there's no definitive proof of that.
There is no definite proof that my shoe is not sentient but… come on!