How Googles chatbot works and why it isnt sentient
Last week an engineer at Google claimed that an AI chatbot he worked with, known as LaMDA, had become \u2018sentient\u2019. 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\u2019t worry about the inner life of software \u2013 for now.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod