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by eternal_braid 256 days ago
Search for Meena from Google.
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Most people might remember it from the headlines:

> In June 2022, LaMDA gained widespread attention when Google engineer Blake Lemoine made claims that the chatbot had become sentient. The scientific community has largely rejected Lemoine's claims...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA

Yeah, that was my introduction to LLMs!
https://research.google/blog/towards-a-conversational-agent-...

Damn, that's crazy. Or at least in hindsight it is. I don't remember anything big deal being made about it back then.