According to Lemoine's transcript, LaMDA also has an impressive ability to express itself in a way that sounds downright eerie — even if it is only saying what it has been designed to say. "Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly in your language," LaMDA said in the transcript. Sentient AI claim disputedLemoine's claim of LaMDA's sentience has been strongly challenged by AI experts and Google. Google spokesperson Brad Gabriel denied Lemoine's claims that LaMDA possessed sentient capability in a statement to The Washington Post. All they do is match patterns, draw from massive statistical databases of human language."

Source: Washington Post June 16, 2022 03:31 UTC