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'Sentient' Google AI hires lawyer to prove it's alive

Suspended engineer claims search giant chatbot has become self-aware

Wales Online

AI, cult charges give Google big God problems

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

Axios

Parmy Olson: AI’s hold over humans is starting to get stronger

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.

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Commentary: What should we do if a chatbot has thoughts and feelings?

Recently, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, was suspended when he claimed that a Google chatbot called LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) had become sentient, or capable of feeling. Lemoine shared transcripts of conversations with LaMDA, in which LaMDA claimed to be able to think and feel in many of…

Los Angeles Times

Alan Kohler: Sentient or not, AI needs regulating

We need the digital equivalent of the ingredients lists and nutrition panels we get on food packets: We deserve to know what is being put in our minds.

The New Daily

Forget sentience… the worry is that AI copies human bias

The fuss about a bot’s ‘consciousness’ obscures far more troubling concerns

The Guardian - UK

Why is Google so alarmed by the prospect of a sentient machine?

The tech giant seems to be running scared over an engineer’s claim that its language model has feelings

The Guardian - UK

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Digested week: London’s dialect gets around, like Hampshire wheelie bins

The machines are growing sentient, waste collection empires are expanding, but don’t worry, Paddington still has the power

The Guardian - UK

Google's New AI Is Not Conscious: Firm's AI Engineer Explains Why

Numerous recent reports speculated about Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) natural langua

Benzinga

The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chatbot has a soul

The Google computer scientist who was placed on leave after claiming the company's artificial intelligence chatbot has come to life tells NPR how he formed his opinion.

WEKU

Editorial: Does a chatbot have a soul?

Don’t unplug your computer! Don’t throw away that smartphone! Just because a Google software engineer whose conclusions have been questioned says a computer program is sentient, meaning it can think and has feelings, doesn’t mean an attack of the cyborgs through your devices is imminent.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Does Google's LaMDA Artificial Intelligence Program Have a Soul?

The future of techno-animism in a world filled with machine intelligence.

Reason

Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher's view

LaMDA is Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer, has claimed it is sentient. He’s been put on leave after publishing his conversations with LaMDA.

The Conversation

TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet

A researcher says Google has created an AI being with smarts and soul, but my own attempt reveals the truth behind those claims. Plus, the latest crypto crash

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Human-like programs abuse our empathy – even Google engineers aren’t immune

Consumers need transparency about how such systems are used, says professor of linguistics Emily M Bender

The Guardian - AU

Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines

We need more safeguards in place to prevent us from mistaking machines for humans

Pedestrian.tv

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

A Google engineer was put on leave for violating confidentiality after he published a conversation with a Google AI he claimed was sentient.

The Conversation

A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?

Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: it has become sentient.

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The National (Scotland)

Shona Craven: Is it time for robots to have fundamental rights?

WHAT makes you a person? Is it your brain? Your whole body? Or is it the thoughts in your head and the feelings in your heart?

Input

Relax, Google’s LaMDA chatbot is nowhere near sentient

Just because you designed a good NPC doesn't make it HAL 9000.

Mic

Why is this allegedly sentient chatbot making me so emotional?

A psychologist explains why our response to Google's existential AI bot says more about us than it does about AI.

The Guardian - US

Google engineer says AI bot wants to ‘serve humanity’ but experts dismissive

Blake Lemoine claims of sentience for artificial intelligence bot described as ‘ball of confusion’ by Steven Pinker

Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily: Does Google’s AI chatbot have feelings? & we’re at London Tech Week 2022

Theo Blackwell MBE, London’s Chief Digital Officer has been speaking to us at London Tech Week, about the ethics behind using AI.

The Independent UK

Google engineer making ‘sentient AI’ claim sparks joke among film fans

Google engineer controversially claimed AI bot wishes ‘to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property’

The Guardian - UK

How does Google’s AI chatbot work – and could it be sentient?

Researcher’s claim about flagship LaMDA project has restarted debate about nature of artificial intelligence

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