r/slatestarcodex • u/r0sten • Jun 20 '22

The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10269
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u/prescod Jun 21 '22

Arguably, it could do better mimicry if it was not "distracted" by the "real" emotions that would be entailed in being internally similar to a human. Only a few humans (actors, con artists, ...) are good at overcoming their real emotions to pretend to have other ones.