About whether LaMDA could be sentient if it fooled a skeptic in a Turing-style test.
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About whether LaMDA could be sentient if it fooled a skeptic in a Turing-style test.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
If given enough time to study it I couldn't come up with a series of prompts that would convince me I'm not speaking to a human, yes I would be likely to accept that it is in some sense sentient, at least for the duration of one conversation.
This is not exactly the classic Turing Test, though.