Google AI on verge of writing fiction, generating videos… but humans are still a factor

Google AI on verge of writing fiction, generating videos… but humans are still a factor

Could AI soon be writing fiction, generating long-form videos or composing music? Well, that’s what Google is trying to understand. With its new Wordcraft project, Google’s chatbot LaMDA is now writing fiction based on inputs from writers. LaMDA is Google’s conversational AI that run into controversy earlier this year after an engineer claimed the AI […]

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OK Google, get me a Coke: AI giant demos soda-fetching robots

OK Google, get me a Coke: AI giant demos soda-fetching robots

Alphabet Inc’s Google is combining the eyes and arms of physical robots with the knowledge and conversation skills of virtual chatbots to help its employees fetch soda and chips from breakrooms with ease. The mechanical waiters, shown in action to reporters last week, embody an artificial intelligence breakthrough that paves the way for multipurpose robots […]

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Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient

Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person. Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his claims on LaMDA to be “wholly unfounded.” […]

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AI’s hold over humans is getting stronger

AI’s hold over humans is getting stronger

It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness. To be clear, current artificial intelligence systems are decades […]

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LaMDA: The AI that a Google engineer thinks has become sentient

LaMDA: The AI that a Google engineer thinks has become sentient

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was placed on administrative leave after he claimed that LaMDA, a language model created by Google AI, had become sentient and begun reasoning like a human being. The news was first reported by the Washington Post and the story has sparked a lot of debate and discussion around AI ethics as […]

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