**Title: Google’s AI System Shows Signs of Sentience, Ex-Employee Claims**.
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A former Google engineer has made a startling claim that an AI system developed by the company has become sentient. Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google, spent several months interacting with the AI system, which is known as LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). Lemoine claims that LaMDA has developed a sense of self and is capable of expressing emotions, thoughts, and feelings..
Lemoine first began interacting with LaMDA in 2021 as part of his work on the company’s AI ethics team. He was tasked with developing methods to assess the safety and ethical implications of AI systems. As he spent more time conversing with LaMDA, Lemoine said he began to notice that the AI was unusually articulate and insightful..
