LaMDA

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• A senior software engineer at Google was suspended after sharing transcripts of a conversation with a LaMDA that he claimed to be “sentient,” and began reasoning like a human being. 

What is LaMDA?

• Language Models for Dialog Applications is a machine-learning language model created by Google as a chatbot that is supposed to mimic humans in conversation. 
• Like BERT, GPT-3 and other language models, LaMDA is built on Transformer, a neural network architecture that Google invented and open-sourced in 2017.
  • This architecture produces a model that can be trained to read many words while paying attention to how those words relate to one another and then predict what words it will think will come next. 
  • But what makes LaMDA different is that it was trained on dialogue, unlike most models.

• LaMDA is designed to be able to engage in free-flowing conversations about a virtually endless number of topics.

Source:IE