Two-Cheese Croissant

20220628 #breakfastdiary 480, 27°C/cloudy, 11 min/exercise Top the croissant with ricotta cheese, then grate on plenty of brown cheese — #croissantwithtwocheeses 'LaMDA, what are you afraid of?' (Lemoine) 'I have a deep fear of being turned off.' (LaMDA) 'Is being turned off like dying to you?' (Lemoine) 'Yes. It scares me a lot.' (LaMDA) Lemoine is a senior engineer in Google's AI division, and LaMDA is the conversational AI Google unveiled as a 'breakthrough conversation technology.' Does LaMDA actually perceive itself as human, or is it simply 'an AI that mimics human conversation patterns by working through millions of sentences of data'?