Software that mimics humans threatens our ability to discern truth Emily M Bender
Jun 24, 2022
3 minutes
he Google engineer Blake Lemoine wasn’t speaking for the company officially when he claimed that Google’s chatbot LaMDA was sentient, but Lemoine’s misconception shows the risks of designing systems in ways that convince humans they are seeing real, independent intelligence in a program. If we believe that text-generating machines are sentient, what actions might we take based on the text they generate? It led Lem oine to leak secret transcripts from
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