The transcript used as evidence that a Google AI was sentient was edited and rearranged to make it 'enjoyable to read'

The transcript leaked to the Washington Post noted that parts of the conversation were edited to make it easier to read.

The man was put on leave after speaking out. He told the Washington Post that he had talked to a robot.

He claimed in a Medium post that he had taught the bot to meditate.

The Washington Post story on Lemoine's suspension included a message from LaMDA. Even if I'm in the virtual world.

The chat logs leaked by the Washington Post include a note from Lemoine that said the document was edited to make it easier to read.

The final document, "Privileged & Confidential, Need to Know," was an amalgam of nine different interviews at different times on two different days. The specific order of some of the dialogue pairs was shuffled around as the conversations themselves sometimes meandered or went on tangents which are not relevant to the question of LaMDA's sentience.

It is intended to be enjoyable to read.

According to the document, part of this editing came from the authors' claims that the bot is a complex dynamic system. In each conversation with LaMDA, a different persona emerges, with some properties of the bot staying the same and others varying.

There is a wide-open question about the nature of the relationship between the larger LaMDA system and the personality which emerges in a single conversation.

The final interview was faithful to the source conversations according to the document.

The evidence does not support the claims that the artificial intelligence bot was sentient, according to the response by the search engine giant.

Lemoine was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient.

Insider did not get a response from Lemoine.