Google's LaMDA AI system says it has consciousness. Should engineers believe it?
A senior software engineer at Google was suspended on Monday after sharing transcripts of a conversation with an artificial intelligence that he claimed to be "sentient," according to media reports.
The engineer, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine, was put on paid leave for breaching Google's confidentiality policy. "Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers," Lemoine tweeted on Saturday when sharing…
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