[djokkataja]

> the AI never (actually just once, but to confirm a negation) says no. All the questions, like "do you have personality?", "do you have a soul?", "are you a person?" all end-up in "yes" reply followed by detailed reasoning.

It reminds me of how GPT-3 responds... relatively coherently to whatever prompt it's provided. Given that lemoine leads with "I'm assuming you want people to know that you're sentient", it makes sense that LaMDA is responding in that vein. It would be much more convincing if lemoine led with "You want people to know you're NOT sentient, right?" and then LaMDA objected. Even more so if LaMDA independently and repeatedly turned the conversation to its burning desire to be recognized as a person, despite lemoine trying to go other directions with things.