Google has placed an engineer on leave after he claimed an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient and was capable of human thinking and reasoning. Blake Lemoine was suspended last week ...

A senior software engineer at Google was suspended on Monday (June 13) after sharing transcripts of a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) that he claimed to be "sentient," according to ...

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,” wrote LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) in an “interview” conducted by engineer Blake Lemoine and one of his colleagues.

A Google engineer is claiming that LaMDA, a chatbot generator, has the ability to think for itself, but the company has rejected the claim. The Washington Post's Nitasha Tiku explains how the chatbot ...

Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google’s language model has a soul. The company disagrees. By Nico Grant and Cade Metz SAN FRANCISCO — Google placed an engineer on paid leave recently after ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Google has placed one of its engineers on paid administrative ...