by Dr. Joseph Mercola, Mercola:
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- According to Google engineer Blake Lemoine, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot application called LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, has achieved sentience, or independent self-aware consciousness
- Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, have dismissed Lemoine’s claims and placed him on paid administrative leave for breach of confidentiality
- In a January 2022 paper, Google warned that a chatbot AI’s ability to impersonate a human being could be problematic if people don’t realize it’s not a real human. For example, someone with nefarious intent could use chatbots to “sow misinformation” by impersonating “specific individuals’ conversational style”