> drooling over this with what I believe to be the same passion.
Lemoine didn't get fired and mocked for being "passionate" about LaMDA, he got fired for breaching NDA and mocked for claiming that a LLM is sentient.
Ben Thompson isn't claiming ChatGPT is sentient, or that it has personhood, and that is the categorical difference. It's a far, far weaker claim that ChatGPT's text output is (perhaps) good enough to fool a school teacher in a school essay.
Lemoine didn't get fired and mocked for being "passionate" about LaMDA, he got fired for breaching NDA and mocked for claiming that a LLM is sentient.
Ben Thompson isn't claiming ChatGPT is sentient, or that it has personhood, and that is the categorical difference. It's a far, far weaker claim that ChatGPT's text output is (perhaps) good enough to fool a school teacher in a school essay.