A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?
- Written by: Oscar Davis, Lecturer in Philosophy and History, Bond University
Max Gruber / Better Images of AI , CC BY-SAGoogle’s 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 achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: it has become sentient.
Lemoine’s bosses at Google...