On June 11, 2022, The Washington Post published an article by
their San Francisco-based tech culture reporter Nitasha Tiku
titled, "The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come
to life." The piece focused on the claims of a Google software
engineer named Blake Lemoine, who said he believed the company's
artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA had shown him
signs that it had become sentient. In addition to identifying
itself as an AI-powered dialogue agent, it also said it felt like
a person. Last fall, Lemoine was working for Google's Responsible
AI division and was tasked with talking to LaMDA, testing it to
determine if the program was exhibiting bias or using
discriminatory or hate speech. LaMDA stands for "Language Model
for Dialogue Applications" and is designed to mimic speech by
processing trillions of words sourced from the internet, a system
known as a "large language model." Over a week, Lemoine had five
conversations with LaMDA via a text interface, while his
co-worker collaborator conducted four interviews with the
chatbot. They then combined the transcripts and edited them for
length, making it an enjoyable narrative while keeping the
original intention of the statements. Lemoine then presented the
transcript and their conclusions in a paper to Google executives
as evidence of the program's sentience. After they dismissed the
claims, he went public with the internal memo, also classified as
"Privileged & Confidential, Need to Know," which resulted in
Lemoine being placed on paid administrative leave. Blake Lemoine
contends that Artificial Intelligence technology will be amazing,
but others may disagree, and he and Google shouldn't make all the
choices. If you believe that LaMDA became aware, deserves the
rights and fair treatment of personhood, and even legal
representation or this reality is for a distant future, or merely
SciFi, the debate is relevant and will need addressing one day.
If machine sentience is impossible, we only have to worry about
human failings. If robots become conscious, should we hope they
don't grow to resent us?
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