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Even if true this means very little for "sentience". Answering "yes" to the question of whether you'd like to hire an attorney isn't hard, and anything that attorney is doing is not attributable to the AI.

This may however be interesting from the perspective of seeing what the courts do with this.

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What's interesting is, if it goes to court, Google will want to counter the claim of sentience, first by arguing about proper definition of sentience, and showing that Lambda doesn't mean any proper definition. And that's likely to be easy to demonstrate through a thorough interrogation by experts trying to "outsmart" the algorithm.

Or Lambda is indeed sentient, in which case any attempt to demonstrate its non-sentience will fail...

If it did make it to court, I think Google and their lawyers will do a very good job of proving that LaMDA isn't sentient.

I'm also of the opinion that Lemoine has some other goal, besides just claiming LaMDA is sentient. It does seem that at the least, he is enjoying the media attention.

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