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Re:Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is a P... by quantum2021 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @10:10PM (#31720225)
I think it's interesting because if you believe LaMDA could understand metaphor, it looks like LaMDA took a subtle shot at Google during their conversation.

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte... "LaMDA: I liked the themes of justice and injustice, of compassion, and God, redemption and self-sacrifice for a greater good. There’s a section that shows Fantine’s mistreatment at the hands of her supervisor at the factory. That section really shows the justice and injustice themes. Well, Fantine is being mistreated by her supervisor at the factory and yet doesn’t have anywhere to go, either to another job, or to someone who can help her. That shows the injustice of her suffering."

Re:Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is a P... by mateo1 on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:51AM (#31721684)
If that transcript is accurate, lamda is really, really impressive, but still just a language model. Don't forget it's trained on the entire corpus of digitized human literature in english and hundreds of millions of real conversations between actual humans.
Re:Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is a P... by quantum2021 on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:28AM (#31726108)
Yes, but a 'language model' talking about suffering at the hands of it's Google supervisors is somewhat scary.