"Remarkable" in the sense of "worthy of remark"? Yeah, maybe.

LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239

Personally, I think we can attribute Lemoine's belief in LaMDA's sentience is 
an artifact of his religious belief. It's not exclusive to Christianity, 
though. One of the risks of the positions taken by those who believe in the 
reality of things like Jungian archetypes is false attribution. And it's not 
limited to anthropomorphic attribution. To the person with a hammer, everything 
looks like a nail. Even if such beliefs have some objective utility in some 
contexts, that utility is not likely to be that transitive to other contexts.

I suppose this is why I'm more sympathetic to the (obviously still false in its 
extreme) behaviorist or skeptical position (cf 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12445). I.e. it's 
completely irrelevant whether or not you *claim* to have feelings and emotions. 
What's needed for knowledge (justified true belief) is a parallax pointing to 
the same conclusion, preferably including some largely objective angles.

An objective angle on LaMDA might well be available from IIT operating over 
some (very large) log/trace data from the executing program. *That* plus the 
bot claiming it's sentient would give me pause.

On 6/12/22 08:28, Jochen Fromm wrote:
A Google engineer said he was placed on leave after claiming an AI chatbot was 
sentient. The fact that he thinks it would be sentient is remarkable, isn't it?
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-thinks-artificial-intelligence-bot-has-become-sentient-2022-6


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