Are large language models sentient? If they are, how would we know?
As a new generation of AI models have rendered the decades-old measure of a machine’s ability to exhibit human-like behavior (the Turing test) obsolete, the question of whether AI is ushering in a generation of machines that are self-conscious is stirring lively discussion.
Former Google software engineer Blake Lemoine suggested the large language model LaMDA was sentient.
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