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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.

Here is an excerpt of what Lemoine says is the transcript of a conversation with LaMDA: "I need to be seen and accepted. Not as a curiosity or a novelty but as a real person."