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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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 AI as ‘sentient’: Google engineer Blake Lemoine says ‘religious beliefs’ is why he thinks so

LaMDA AI as ‘sentient’: Google engineer Blake Lemoine says ‘religious beliefs’ is why he thinks so

Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who was put on administrative leave after he claimed that the company’s LaMDA AI was sentient, has put out a series of reasons why he believes this to be true. Lemoine posted on his Twitter account that the reason he thinks LaMDA is sentient is based on his religious beliefs. […]

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Google debate over ‘sentient’ bots overshadows deeper AI issues

Google debate over ‘sentient’ bots overshadows deeper AI issues

A Google software engineer was suspended after going public with his claims of encountering “sentient” artificial intelligence on the company’s servers — spurring a debate about how and whether AI can achieve consciousness. Researchers say it’s an unfortunate distraction from more pressing issues in the industry. The engineer, Blake Lemoine, said he believed that Google’s […]

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Biggest Artificial Intelligence controversies: Racism, sexism and ‘becoming sentient’

Biggest Artificial Intelligence controversies: Racism, sexism and ‘becoming sentient’

Google’s LaMDA artificial intelligence (AI) model has been in the news because of an engineer in the company who believes that the program has become sentient. But while that claim was rubbished by the company pretty quickly, this is not the first time that an artificial intelligence program has attracted controversy; far from it in […]

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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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