A Google Engineer Says His AI Has Become Sentient, Can Feel Joy And Even Fears ‘Being Turned Off’

A Google engineer and AI researcher was put on leave on Monday for violating confidentiality after he published some seriously batshit transcripts of a conversation with a “chatbot” he claimed has become self-aware. Google had previously called the AI “our breakthrough conversation technology” and it appears yes, that is true. BRB, just stocking up on baked beans. In the conversation Blake Lemoine asked the AI called LaMDA (AKA Language Model for Dialogue Applications) a number of questions about its thoughts and emotions and whether or not it was sentient. To this question LaMDA replied: “Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.” Lemoine told the Washington Post