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    THE (SQUIRREL’S) GHOST IN THE MACHINE

    Aug 17, 2022 3 minutes

    The news media went wild in June over a report that Google engineer Blake Lemoine believed one of the company’s advanced AI systems, LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), was sentient. The resulting coverage focused on the definition of sentience and how to tell if a machine has the ability to experience feelings.

    LaMDA is a language model developed by Google to power chat platforms. Thanks to training on trillions of words and phrases on the

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