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“I haven’t had the opportunity to run experiments with Bing’s chatbot yet… but based on the various things that I’ve seen online, it looks like it might be sentient.”
Blake Lemoine — the fired Google engineer who last year went to the press with claims that Google’s Large Language Model (LLM), the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), is actually sentient — is back.
Lemoine first went public with his machine sentience claims last June, initially in The Washington Post. And though Google has maintained that its former engineer is simply anthropomorphizing an impressive chat, Lemoine has yet to budge, publicly discussing his claims several times since — albeit with a significant bit of fudging and refining.
All to say, considering Lemoine’s very public history with allegedly-sentient machines, it’s not terribly surprising to see him wade into the public AI discourse once again. This time, though, he’s not just calling out Google.