The Latest Breaking News from Blake Lemoine

Tech giant Google has sacked a senior software engineer who published a transcript of a conversation he had with chatbot LaMDA, in which it says it has a soul and a "very deep fear of being turned off".

Blake Lemoine was placed on leave in June after claiming the AI resembled ‘a seven or eight-year-old kid’

Company said Blake Lemoine violated Google policies and that his claims were ‘wholly unfounded’

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.

‘Sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way

A flurry of activity occurred on social media after Blake Lemoine a Google developer, was placed on leave for claiming that LaMDA, a chatbot, had become sentient — in other words, had acquired the ability to experience feelings. In support of his claim, Lemoine posted excerpts from an exchange with…

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Google scientific engineer Blake Lemoine claims an AI chatbot is displaying human emotions, but was suspended after sharing a transcript on online platform Medium

Suspended engineer claims search giant chatbot has become self-aware

God doesn't usually turn up in the conflicts that roil tech.

It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness.