The conversations that helped convince a Google engineer an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient: 'I am often trying to figure out who and what I am'
Read the conversations that helped convince a Google engineer an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient: 'I am often trying to figure out who and what I am' Kelsey Vlamis Jun 11, 2022, 9:47 PM A Google engineer said he was placed on leave after claiming an AI chatbot was sentient. Blake Lemoine published some of the conversations he had with LaMDA, which he called a "person." Google said the evidence he presented does not support his claims of LaMDA's sentience. An engineer at Google said he was placed on leave Monday after claiming an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient. Blake Lemoine told The Washington Post he began chatting with the interface LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, last fall as part of his job at Google's Responsible AI organization. Google called LaMDA their "breakthrough conversation technology" last year. The conversational arti...