Google suspends engineer following claims an AI system had become sentient

Blake Lemoine made headlines after being suspended from Google, following his claims that an artificial intelligence bot had become sentient.

The Alphabet-run AI development team put him on paid leave for breaching company policy by sharing confidential information about the project, he said in a Medium post. For months, Lemoine had tussled with Google managers, executives and human resources over his surprising claim that the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, had consciousness and a soul

Here are five of the questions Lemoine posed and five answers he says LaMDA gave.

On feelings

Lemoine: We’ve talked a lot about feelings but earlier