[D] Two flaws in discussions surrounding the recent LaMDA controversy: it's not stateless, and it is dual process; but whether it's sentient is far less important than how it would edit Wikipedia

I'm sure everyone here has heard about the LaMDA sentience controversy by now, so in addition to linking to its arxiv full text (["LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications" by Thoppilan, et al., 2022](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08239.pdf)), I'd also like to correct a few points that I see most people getting wrong.

First, unlike plain GPT-3, Davinci, and the like, LaMDA is *not* stateless. Its sensibleness metric (including whether responses contradict anything said earlier) is fine-tuned by pre-conditioning each turn with many of …

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