Numerous recent reports speculated about Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) natural language processing artificial intelligence (AI) software LaMDA being conscious after senior Google software engineer Blake Lemoine started ringing the alarm that it was conscious. Still, other experts strongly disagree.
What Happened: A paper penned by Lemoine contains an impressive interview of LaMDA in which the AI explains it is conscious and goes to great lengths explaining its subjective experience, its "inner world" and will need to have its rights recognized.
