LaMDA

Is it possible for modern-day artificial intelligence (AI) systems to be sentient? According to one Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, the company's LaMDA chatbot has achieved that distinction, and he said so earlier this spring in a document called "Is LaMDA Sentient?" While the document was circulated internally with top executives at the time, Lemoine's concerns about the AI became public knowledge after he published transcripts of its conversations to Medium last week.However, due to Lemoine publicly posting what Google…

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became sentient — AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine. Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became…

Google at the I/O 2022 consumer keynote on Wednesday announced the launch of LaMDA 2 as its new conversational artificial intelligence (AI) model that can help make conversations via computing devices easier and more efficient. Touted to be the most advanced conversational AI, LaMDA 2 is the successor to the original LaMDA — shortform of Language Models for Dialog Applications — that was launched at the I/O developer conference last year. Alongside LaMDA 2, Google announced AI Test Kitchen as its dedicated app to help…