LaMDA Is Nothing Like a Person. This is Why.

Recently, Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer, caught the attention of the tech world by claiming that an AI is sentient. The AI in question is called LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications). It's a system based on large language models. "I know a person when I talk to it," Lemoine told the Washington Post. "It doesn't matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head. Or if they have a billion lines of code. And I hear what they have to say, and that is how I decide what is and isn't a person."