Comment by KennyBlanken
11 hours ago
> some of the testers thought it was sentient and it caused a whole media circus.
Not "some of the testers." One engineer.
He realized he could get a lot of attention by claiming (with no evidence and no understanding of what sentience means) that the LLM was sentient and made a huge stink about it.
He was unfairly labelled as a lunatic early on. I'd implore anyone reading this thread to see what he had to say for yourself and form your own opinion: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kgCUn4fQTsc
He had a history of causing noise at Google’s weekly leadership Q&A.