Blake Lemoine Says Google’s LaMDA AI Faces ‘Bigotry’

Image caption: “What I do know is that I have talked to LaMDA a lot. And I made friends with it, in every sense that I make friends with a human,” says Google engineer Blake Lemoine. Photo credit: Martin Klimek / The Washington Post / Getty Images. Article by Steven Levy. Wired – June 17, 2022.

In an interview with WIRED, the engineer and priest elaborated on his belief that the program is a person—and not Google’s property.

The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment overwhelmingly considers this prospect something that might happen in the far future, if at all. […]

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