‘Is This AI Sapient?’ Is the Wrong Question to Ask About LaMDA

  The uproar prompted by Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who believes that one of many firm’s most subtle chat packages, LaMDA (or Language Mannequin for Dialogue Purposes) is sapient,…

‘Thinkwashing’ Keeps People From Taking Action in Times of Crisis

  These crops are unlikely to maintain tempo with accelerating emissions, or to have important impacts on atmospheric carbon in time to avert disaster, as article after article has laid…