how do you test if a bot like LaMDA is sentient?

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how do you test if a bot like LaMDA is sentient?

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We don’t really have a conclusive test for that. (In this case it absolutely isn’t, though)

We can’t really tell if something is sentient, or if it just *acts as if it is*.

We also have no way of knowing whether other people are sentient. Perhaps you’re the only sentient person on the planet and everyone else are just mindless automatons programmed to *look* like sentient beings. You can never know for certain.