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Is Google’s LaMDA Woke? Its Software Engineers Sure Are

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Is Google’s LaMDA Woke? Its Software Engineers Sure Are
The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2021. Andrew Kelly/Reuters
Michael Rectenwald
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An article in The Washington Post revealed that a Google engineer who had worked with Google’s Responsible AI organization believes that Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an artificially intelligent chatbot generator, is “sentient.”
Michael Rectenwald
Michael Rectenwald
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Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., is a former professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College. He is the author of twelve books, including “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty” (2022), “Thought Criminal” (2020), “Beyond Woke” (2020), “Google Archipelago” (2019), “Springtime for Snowflakes” (2018), and “Nineteenth-Century British Secularism” (2016).
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