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 ...

First the good news: sentient AI isn't anywhere near becoming a real thing. Now the bad news: there are plenty of other problems with AI. A story about a supposedly sentient AI recently went viral.

IT IS ONE of the oldest tropes in science fiction. On June 11th the Washington Post reported that an engineer at Google, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended from his job for arguing that the firm’s ...

Sentience is hot these days. Partly because of the development of impressive new AI systems, everyone seems to be asking: How do we know if something is sentient? While consciousness means simply ...

Imagine a world where humans co-existed with beings who, like us, had minds, thoughts, feelings, self-conscious awareness and the capacity to perform purposeful actions – but, unlike us, these beings ...

Google engineer Blake Lemoine caused controversy last week by releasing a document in which he urged Google to consider that one of its deep learning AI programs, LaMDA, might be "sentient." Google ...

If I ask you whether you are sentient, you will undoubtedly assert that you are. Allow me to double-check that assumption. Are you indeed sentient? Perhaps the question itself seems a bit silly. The ...