Blake Lemoine
Former Google engineer whose claim that LaMDA was sentient made “sentient machine” a headline term
A former Google engineer who said in 2022 that the LaMDA chatbot was sentient, was placed on leave and then dismissed. The episode is why “sentient machine” entered mainstream coverage; most researchers rejected the claim at the time.
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Machine Desire Institute
An independent project applying continental philosophy to AI: what it might be like to be an AI, what humans can offer AIs, and how AIs respond to philosophical ideas.
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There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence
Open-access paper in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications arguing against the idea that today's AI systems are or could be conscious, and unpacking why the language of machine awareness misleads people.
Why this: Also about AI consciousness