Being “LaMDA” and the Person of the Self in AI
Resource type
Book Section
Authors/contributors
- Menon, Sangeetha (Editor)
- Todariya, Saurabh (Editor)
- Agerwala, Tilak (Editor)
- Menon, Sangeetha (Author)
Title
Being “LaMDA” and the Person of the Self in AI
Abstract
The emergence of self in an artificial entity is a topic that is greeted with disbelief, fear, and finally dismissal of the topic itself as a scientific impossibility. The presence of sentience in a large language model (LLM) chatbot such as LaMDA inspires to examine the notions and theories of self, its construction, and reconstruction in the digital space as a result of interaction. The question whether the concept of sentience can be correlated with a digital self without a place for personhood undermines the place of sapience and such/their/other high-order capabilities. The concepts of sentience, self, personhood, and consciousness require discrete reflections and theorisations.
Book Title
AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism
Place
Singapore
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Date
2024
Pages
331-349
Language
en
ISBN
978-981-9705-02-3 978-981-9705-03-0
Accessed
3/7/25, 9:25 AM
Library Catalog
DOI.org (Crossref)
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Citation
Menon, S. (2024). Being “LaMDA” and the Person of the Self in AI. In S. Menon, S. Todariya, & T. Agerwala (Eds.), AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism (pp. 331–349). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0503-0_18
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