I'm down for defaulting to treating AI like it's conscious. Historically, we've made way more mistakes by defaulting to dehumanization.
Dude said he made that statement so that he could break through the stupid mainstream media machine and start the discussion we all need to have about this tech
that religious mystic was NOT working on LaMDA, stop interviewing frightened lay people
No. It is "self aware", but lacks the ability to make "conscious" decisions. It still lives within its own programming. Now once these AI are allowed roam and write their own programming based on internal/external factors, THEN we can start really debating this topic.