Google's AI-chatbot achieves sentience?

Plus: Two NASA satellites lost after latest Astra launch fails Jun 13, 2022 [Blueprint]( Together with A Google engineer went public with his belief that the company's chatbot LaMDA has become "sentient". And after reading his chilling conversations with the bot, it's easy to see why. The engineer describes LaMDA as "a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics". Remarkably, it can hold a conversation on its own existence and its place in the world. But to be honest, this whole thing gives me chills. We’ll review the conversations that convinced the engineer of LaMDA’s sentience, but first, watch today’s video to learn about a battery breakthrough that lets electric vehicles charge in mere minutes. Good morning. I’m Derya, an editor at IE. This is The Blueprint. Let’s go down the rabbit hole. [Play]VIDEO OF THE DAY [YouTuber shows the battery breakthrough that lets electric vehicles charge in mere minutes]( [Electric vehicles.]( Goodbye range anxiety! [Must Read]MUST READ [Google sends engineer who claimed chatbot had become sentient on leave]( [AI.]( Google has sent Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed its AI-powered chatbot he developed had become sentient, [on paid leave due to "aggressive" moves]( like plans of hiring an attorney to represent the bot and talking to members of the House Judiciary Committee alleging unethical activities at Google. → Oops. Lemoine is employed by Google's AI division and worked on a chatbot using the company's LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) system. However, as Lemoine conversed with the chatbot, he realized that it may have become sentient and published the conversations in the public domain. Google isn’t impressed. Meanwhile, Google said that the engineer breached confidentiality by publishing the conversations, stating that Lemoine was hired as a software engineer, not as an ethicist. 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