One Weird Trick To Make Humans Think An AI Is “Sentient”
Vulnerability.
7 min readJun 13, 2022
By now you may have read the viral Washington Post story about “The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life”.
If you haven’t, go read it! It’s quite fascinating. The tl;dr is that Google engineer Blake Lemoine became convinced that LaMDA — one of Google’s massive language models designed for…
