‘Is This AI Sapient?’ Is the Wrong Question to Ask About LaMDA

June 14, 2022

(Wired) – The uproar caused by Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who believes that one of the company’s most sophisticated chat programs, Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) is sapient, has had a curious element: Actual AI ethics experts are all but renouncing further discussion of the AI sapience question, or deeming it a distraction. They’re right to do so. (Read More)