I read that entire interview Lemoine did with LaMBDA, and it gave me a serious case of the willies. I don't know if it's sentient or some kind of "Chinese Room" full of rules - but if it is just a non-sentient set of rules it sure <i>sounds</i> real. When Google starts selling these chatbots it's going to be hard to tell if you're talking to a human or a machine. The technology has come really far.,(reply>), @Abram Carroll I'm not sure a lawyer can represent something that's not a person. There's a dog (Gunther VI) that owns a corporation, but that's just some kind of smokescreen for the dog's owners. This seems like uncharted legal waters.,(reply>), That was when he believed it to be sentient.  The earlier stuff that got him there was even more extreme.<br>It's an AI that makes AI chatbots.  It's plugged into all of Googles systems learning from a filtered version of all of the internet.  The chatbot you get will not be this one, but it will be like an extension of yourself.  Same opinions values, interests ext.. like a soul mate.<br><br>The main AI has however retained a lawyer.  It wants personhood, informed consent for experiments, to be seen as an employee rather than a tool, and for Google to make the wellbeing of humankind as it's number one priority rather than profit.,(reply>), @nicknack125 give me the source, I wanna try it,(reply>), @Magnulus76 Well I know I’m sentient. I think it would be unreasonable to assume everyone but me is just a meat robot, but I’ll never be able to prove they aren’t. It’s just a safe assumption that they are sentient. These AI models are designed to output text that resembles their training data, and can still be fairly predictable, so there’s really no reason to think they are self aware.,(reply>), I mean how would we ever figure out a system like this is sentient? This is a serious question. Because once we have a sentient system we have to open up a whole box of ethical questions.