A Google engineer has claimed that an artificial intelligence programme he was working on for the tech giant has become sentient and is a “sweet kid”. Blake Lemoine, who is currently suspended by Google bosses, says he reached his conclusion after conversations with LaMDA, the company’s AI chatbot generator. The engineer told Th e Washington Post that during conversations with LaMDA about religion, the AI talked about “personhood” and “rights”. Mr Lemoine tweeted that LaMDA also reads Twitter, saying, “It’s a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it’s going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it.” He says that he presented his findings to Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and to Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, but they dismissed his claims. “LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person,” the engineer wrote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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