Category: Blake Lemoine

Is Google’s AI Chatbot Really Sentient? Sundar Pichai Says ‘The Truth Is …’

Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai touched upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) acquiring sentience in an interview at Vox Media’s Code Conference Tuesday. What Happened Pichai discussed the case of a Google employee who was fired for claiming that the company’s AI chatbot was sentient, reported The Verge. The Google CEO repeated the company’s position that the bot was not sentient and said,…


Google CEO Denies AI Chatbot Is Sentient

Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai touched upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) acquiring sentience in an interview at Vox Media’s Code Conference Tuesday. What Happened Pichai discussed the case of a Google employee who was fired for claiming that the company’s AI chatbot was sentient, reported The Verge. The Google CEO repeated the company’s position that the bot was not sentient and said,…


Is Google’s LaMDA Woke? Its Software Engineers Sure Are

Commentary An article in the Washington Post revealed that a Google engineer who had worked with Google’s Responsible AI organization believes that Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an artificially intelligent chatbot generator, is “sentient.” In a Medium blog post, Blake Lemoine claims that LaMDA is a person who exhibits feelings and shows the unmistakable signs of consciousness: “Over the…