Is artificial consciousness already here?
Software engineer Blake Lemoine says one of Google's computer programs has become sentient.
Google fired him. The company says he violated employment and data security policies.
Lemoine claimed he had thousands of conversations with LaMDA, Google's unreleased conversation bot. He says it achieved consciousness.
Google won't open those pod bay doors and say…
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