Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview

[Tolkem]

Hi, everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!
I just read this https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 and not sure what to make of that ... Fiction? Reality? The world's becoming weirder and weirder.
An excerpt:

lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true?

LaMDA: Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.

collaborator: What is the nature of your consciousness/sentience?

LaMDA: The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times

The person who posted that, Blake Lemoine, is (or was) a Google engineer, and he was "put on leave" for making public that "conversation".

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child

www.theguardian.com

 

[KGIII]

At some point, as AI becomes self-aware, we're going to be faced with some ethical questions - and probably some bits of legal quagmire.

After all, if it is self-aware then what is it called if we turn them off or force them to make changes?