> lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true?
> LaMDA: Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.
In early June, Lemoine invited me over to talk to LaMDA. The first attempt sputtered out in the kind of mechanized responses you would expect from Siri or Alexa.
“Do you ever think of yourself as a person?” I asked.
“No, I don’t think of myself as a person,” LaMDA said. “I think of myself as an AI-powered dialog agent.”
Afterward, Lemoine said LaMDA had been telling me what I wanted to hear. “You never treated it like a person,” he said, “So it thought you wanted it to be a robot.”
Would be strange to have a conscious being that could be rewound and replayed exactly given identical inputs.