The Jovian Duck — LaMDA and the Mirror Test - Rifters

Avi Loeb is a 'respectable' scientist who earnestly contributes science fiction ideas as arXiv fodder. Peter Watts, on the other hand, is a science fiction writer who used to be a scientist and he's one of the vanishingly few people with the cojones asking folks to humor Blake Lemoine's maverick proposition that Google's AI, named LaMDA, is sentient. Or at least challenge the tests by which true believers are gauging LaMDA. After all, what proof does anyone have that you are conscious? In typical Wattsian fashion, there's plenty of existential angst and doom should Lemoine be right. (CS)

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