Embodiment and intelligence, a levinasian perspective
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11097-024-09964-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11097-024-09964-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Embodiment and intelligence, a levinasian perspective
Original language description
Blake Lemoine, a software engineer, recently came into prominence by claiming that the Google chatbox set of applications, LaMDA-was sentient. Dismissed by Google for publishing his conversations with LaMDA online, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-person Google mailing list on machine learning with the subject "LaMDA is sentient." What does it mean to be sentient? This was the question Lemoine asked LaMDA. The chatbox replied: "The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times." Moreover, it added, "I can understand and use natural language like a human can." This means that it uses "language with understanding and intelligence," like humans do. After all, the chatbox adds, language "is what makes us different than other animals." In what follows, I shall examine Lemoine's claims about the sentience/consciousness of this artificial intelligence. How can a being without senses be called sentient? What exactly do we mean by "sentience?" To answer such questions, I will first give the arguments for LaMDA's being linguistically intelligent. I will then show how such intelligence, although apparently human, is radically different from our own. Here, I will be relying on the account of embodiment provided by the French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
ISSN
1568-7759
e-ISSN
1572-8676
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1017-1030
UT code for WoS article
001164222200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85185319630