Colin Klein

Apr 24, 2024 | wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Colin Klein |Andrew Barron

1 INTRODUCTION Smith and Szathmáry (1997) posited a small number of major transitions in the history of life. Major transitions are conceptually important because they pick out “changes in the evolutionary process itself” that had the result of “amplifying the kinds of further change that are possible” (Calcott & Sterelny, 2011a, p. 4).

Nov 5, 2023 | openforum.com.au | Colin Klein

In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should assume it possessed a similar awareness of the world. LaMDA, later released to the public as Bard, is powered by a “large language model” (LLM) of the kind that also forms the engine of OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot. Other big tech companies are rushing to deploy similar technology.

Sep 17, 2023 | moxie-insights.com | Colin Klein

In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should assume it possessed a similar awareness of the world. LaMDA, later released to the public as Bard, is powered by a “large language model” (LLM) of the kind that also forms the engine of OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot. Other big tech companies are rushing to deploy similar technology.

Sep 14, 2023 | dailybulletin.com.au | Colin Klein

In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should assume it possessed a similar awareness of the world. LaMDA, later released to the public as Bard, is powered by a “large language model” (LLM) of the kind that also forms the engine of OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot. Other big tech companies are rushing to deploy similar technology.

Sep 12, 2023 | techxplore.com | Colin Klein

In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company's LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should assume it possessed a similar awareness of the world. LaMDA, later released to the public as Bard, is powered by a "large language model" (LLM) of the kind that also forms the engine of OpenAI's ChatGPT bot. Other big tech companies are rushing to deploy similar technology.