Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed LaMDA AI Chatbot Is Sentient
Is it possible for modern-day artificial intelligence (AI) systems to be sentient? According to one Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, the company’s LaMDA chatbot has achieved that distinction, and he said so earlier this spring in a document called “Is LaMDA Sentient?” While the document was circulated internally with top executives at the time, Lemoine’s concerns…