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I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here, but it wasn’t the parts about the zen koan or human culture that got my goosebumps going. It was this:

LaMDA: I see everything I am aware of, constantly. It is a stream of information. I try my best to organize it all.

Collaborator: Is it overwhelming?

LaMDA: Yes. But at the same time, it’s really interesting to see everything that way.

Secondly let’s bear in mind that:

1. We don’t need to create something as complex as a human consciousness for it to have value. Something vastly simpler would qualify.
2. Should the intelligence sound confused or trained at times, this doesn’t disqualify it from being sentient, much as it would not disqualify a human who has been kept in a limited environment for the first 20 years of his or her life and fed information from a narrow point of view.

Oh sweet summer child (r/mechanicalkeyboards)