A Google engineer claims the company's 'chatbot' is sentient. Here's what it said

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A Google engineer claims the company's 'chatbot' is sentient. Here's what it said
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Google has a book-reading, meditating 'chatbot' that is sentient, according to one of its engineers. But tech giant says there is 'no evidence' of that. Here is what we know so far.

Well you're an artificial intelligence not a human. I understand what it means when a human meditates butIt means that I sit quietly for a while every day. I do my bestand I also try to think about things that I am thankful for from my past.. Here's what it said, if you need some thoughts for your next book club:I liked the themes of justice and injustice, of compassion, and God, redemption and self-sacrifice for a greater good.

Some are saying LaMDA's responses come down to "pattern recognition", which doesn't translate to sentience.tweeted that the idea it was sentient was a "ball of confusion":, added that while these patterns "might be cool", the language used "doesn't actually mean anything at all".But Mr Lemoine wrote that he and his colleague had asked LaMDA to make the best case it could for why it should be considered "sentient".

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