How Google’s chatbot works – and why it isn’t sentient – podcast
by Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Anand Jagatia from Science | The Guardian on (#60DPQ)
Last week an engineer at Google claimed that an AI chatbot he worked with, known as LaMDA, had become sentient'. Blake Lemoine published a transcript of his conversations with LaMDA that included responses about having feelings and fearing death. But could it really be conscious? AI researcher and author Kate Crawford speaks to Ian Sample about how LaMDA actually works, and why we shouldn't worry about the inner life of software - for now.
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