Has Google’s AI LaMDA Come to Life?
There has been an interesting turn of events with Google’s engineer Blake Lemoine. He interacts with LaMDA which is Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator. LaMDA is an abbreviation of Language Model for Dialogue Applications which is developed by Google for acting as a chatbot. This mimics speech by ingesting trillions of words from the internet. As per Blake Lemoine he felt like “If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics”. As mentioned, before it was the duty of Lemoine to speak with the LaMDA and to check whether the AI designed uses discriminatory or hate speech. Talking With LaMDA With his interaction with LaMDA about religion, it was noticed by the Engineer that the chatbot was beginning to talk about its rights and personhood. After the incident, he decided to investigate further. In a different interaction, the AI was able to change Lemoine’s opin