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My bone marrow aspiration test results came back after about two weeks. I didn’t have lymphoma or other unusual cell. But I did have something: certain suspect mutations or changes in the cells collected from my biopsy. I reviewed the results with my oncologist. “What does it mean?” I was curious. It was not nothing.
More so than simple awareness, sentience can be defined as the ability to feel feelings, to be moved and driven by those feelings and, importantly, to be aware of others and their feelings. It’s possible that LaMDA met that last criterion (it seemed to know that it was speaking to a specific Google engineer), but whether it’s able to feel emotions is contested, to say the least. LaMDA was only doing what it was taught to do, make calculations to put a sequence of words together to form a response. Besides, it’s not the only AI of its kind with these types of capabilities.