In this continuation of last week’s conversation, ex-Googler Blake Lemoine tells Robert J. Marks what originally got him interested in AI: reading the science fiction of Isaac Asimov as a boy in rural Louisiana. The two go on to discuss and debate sentience in AI, non-computable traits of human beings, and the question of the soul.

Additional Resources

• Robert J. Marks at Discovery.org
• Blake Lemoine at Twitter
• Full audio performance of the conversation between Blake Lemoine and LaMDA
• Full audio performance of the conversation between Blake Lemoine and LaMDA-Transcript
• LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
• Computing Machinery And Intelligence By A. M. Turing
• Video on LaMDA 2
• Thomas Ray Tierra: The Character of Adaptation
• “Join us in the AI Test Kitchen” Test LaMDA2