Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
LLM are definitely not sentient. As someone with a PhD in this domain, I attribute the &#x27;magic&#x27; to large scale statistical knowledge assimilation by the models - and reproduction to prompts which closely match the inputs&#x27; sentence embedding.<p>GPT-3 is known to fail in many circumstances which would otherwise be commonplace logic. (I remember seeing how addition of two small numbers yielded results - but larger numbers gave garbled output; more likely that GPT3 had seen similar training data.)<p>The belief of sentience isn&#x27;t new. When ELIZA came out few decades ago, a lot of people were also astounded &amp; thought this &quot;probably was more than met the eyes&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s a fad. Once people understand that sentience also means self-awareness, empathy &amp; extrapolation of logic to assess unseen task (to name a few), this myth will taper off.