AI Can Show Us What It Means to Be Conscious

As artificial intelligence grows, so will our understanding of consciousness and what it means to be human

Sahir Dhalla
Towards Data Science
5 min readJun 23, 2022

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On June 11, Google engineer Blake Lemoine released a transcript of his conversation with LaMDA. LaMDA is Google’s machine-learning model that mimics human speech and thought, and Lemoine believed it was sentient.

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