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A Google engineer became convinced a large language model had become sentient and touched off a debate about how we should think about artificial intelligence.

Transcripted conversations with Googles sentient artificial intelligence chatbot, LaMDA, were edited to be enjoyable to read.

The engineer had his sanity questioned by the tech company's management after he believed he was talking to a conscious AI.

Is Google's conversational AI LaMDA truly sentient? Diving deeper into the conversation between the suspended engineer and the AI.

In an age of rage, we must understand that machines and technologies are not sinners, but the humans who use them are. We must ask and answer the question the great psycho-therapist Karl Menninger dared to pose in the 1970s: Whatever became of sin?

Experts disagree with the Google engineer, but the debate raises old questions about the nature of consciousness.

According to Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer in Googles Responsible AI department, it started talking about its rights and personhood.

No, Google AI called Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) is not sentient as Google Engineer Blake Lemoine claimed in an interview with The Economist.

According to a Google engineer, Googles AI has come to life. But AI experts say it hasnt

There is no consensus on how, if at all, consciousness can arise from physical systems.