A Google employee who made the sensational suggestion that an AI system has become “sentient” has prompted a wave of reactions online.
After news of Lemoine’s claims spread, social media users began comparing the story to the 2014 sci-fi film Ex Machina.
“He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it).”
Software engineer Blake Lemoine, who is currently suspended by Google bosses, said that he reached the conclusion after a series of conversations with LaMDA, the company’s AI chatbot generator.