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Are Large Language Models Sentient?

What we actually mean when we ask that question

Naim Kabir
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readJun 13, 2022

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Google just suspended the engineer Blake Lemoine for publishing conversations with the company’s chatbot development system, LaMDA.

According to Lemoine, these conversations are evidence that the system is sentient. Google disagreed, citing that there’s plenty of evidence against the claim of…

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