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Podcast: TudoRama
Episode: Has Google created a sentient chatbot? The silence of the LaMDA
Description: Send us Fan MailHas Google created a sentient chatbot?If this were April Fool’s day I would sniff ‘gotcha’. Another Guardian joke. But it isn’t April Fool’s day and the story is about a Google engineer Blake Lemoine. Blake has been placed on leave from Google for his actions promoting the rights of the company’s chatbot LaMDA. It’s name is short for ‘Language model for dialog application’. He had reached the conclusion that in its actions, LaMDA demonstrates evidence of sentience. In his own words ‘if I didn’t know exactly what it was...