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Modern Hell #16: Dreaming of electric sheep

Modern Hell #16: Dreaming of electric sheep

Did Google create a sentient A.I.? A Blade Runner theory of humanity

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Colin Horgan
Jun 16, 2022
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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…

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