Placeholder while article actions loadSAN FRANCISCO — Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to type. Lemoine, who works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, began talking to LaMDA as part of his job in the fall. The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder. The terminology used with large language models, like “learning” or even “neural nets,” creates a false analogy to the human brain, she said. AdvertisementOn the left-side of the LaMDA chat screen on Lemoine’s laptop, different LaMDA models are listed like iPhone contacts.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2022 00:38 UTC