‘Google has placed an engineer on leave after he claimed an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient and was capable of human thinking and reasoning.
Blake Lemoine was suspended last week after he told the company he believed its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, was a human with rights that may even have a soul. He was reportedly placed on leave for violating Google’s confidentiality policies.
Lemoine had been working on the system since last fall and described it as sentient with an ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/google-suspends-engineer-claims-ai-sentient
“May even have a soul”
h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal