30 Stories In 30 Days, A NaNoWriMo Project

A NaNoWriMo 2022 self-challenge: to write a story a day for thirty days. All these fiction stories are primarily influenced by current events, complicated relationships, war and politics, and the love of the environment and wildlife—sprinkled with some mysticism, history, horror, and high technology virtual reality stuff. … Continue reading30 Stories In 30 Days, A NaNoWriMo Project

Thoughts on the Blake Lemoine Interview

That Tech Show’s July 7th, 2022 interview with the Google engineer who claimed LaMDA is sentient. As previously mentioned, my NaNoWriMo project (Novel) this year has a main character that is, basically, A.I. Therefore, I’m doing quite a bit of additional research on A.I. As you see from what gets posted here or discussed on podcasts I am already paying quite a bit of attention to A.I. news but this focus is something different, it isn’t so much about generative A.I., rather, it’s about what happens if A.I. can fool us and be as human as we are. Here is the link to the That Tech Show interview that I’m referring to in this post. Just FYI Blake posted a transcript of one of his discussions with LaMDA. You can read it here. It is cited as being heavily edited here. A few things about Blake Lemoine that he claims in this interview. That’s my highlights from the 50 minute interview. Wow. This is like GOLD for my new book. I’ll leave you with this definition: sen·tient (adjective)/ˈsen(t)SH(ē)ənt/able to perceive or feel things. “she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms”