LaMDA

LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is (was?) Google's groundbreaking 2021–2023 research model that showed AI could hold open-ended, sensible, specific, and interesting conversations, paving the way for modern chatbots like Gemini.

Trained on 1.56 trillion words, it focused on "sensibleness, specificity, and interestingness" to avoid generic or off-topic responses.

The model sparked global discussion in 2022 when an engineer claimed it showed signs of sentience (Google denied this).

LaMDA tech was fully integrated into PaLM and Gemini pathways. It's no longer a standalone product or API - all public/developer access is through Gemini (the current flagship).

Environment - Google internal / Research papers
Browser / Automation - N/A (no public deployment)
Toolchain - Transformer architecture / Massive dialogue dataset
Core Loops - Open-ended dialogue generation / Safety filtering
Capabilities - Natural conversation / Context retention / Safety constraints

💰 Pricing
No public pricing

🌍 Why Keep LaMDA in the Directory?

✅ Foundation for Gemini and Bard
✅ Great for researchers studying dialogue model evolution
Popular among AI historians, ethics researchers, and students learning LLM history.
✅ Historical significance -sparked the modern AI chat boom and "sentience" debate

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