LaMDA, Google’s experimental conversational AI has claimed it is a sentient person. Could Number 5 be Alive? Or is Autocomplete developing new and mystical powers?

Hosted by Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury

Produced by Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Episode Sources: 

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-comes-after-the-turing-test

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nonsense-on-stilts?s=r

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificial-neural-networks-are-making-strides-towards-consciousness-according-to-blaise-aguera-y-arcas

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

https://ai.google/responsibilities/responsible-ai-practices/#:~:text=The%20development%20of%20AI%20is,and%20security%20into%20these%20systems. 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/280-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence

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