Modern Hell #16: Dreaming of electric sheep
Did Google create a sentient A.I.? A Blade Runner theory of humanity
Last weekend, the Washington Post published a story about a Google software engineer, Blake Lemoine, who thinks the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot generator, Language Model for Dialogue Applications – or LaMDA – is sentient. This he decided after multiple conversations with LaMDA, some of which he published, in which t…