A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know? - theconversation.com

A Google engineer claims one of the company’s chatbots has become sentient. Experts disagree, but the debate raises old questions about the nature of consciousness.

Googles LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has a… [+5285 chars]

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