AI researcher Kate Crawford speaks to Ian Sample about how Google’s AI system actually works, and why it’s unlikely to have a life of its own.
Last week an engineer at Google claimed that an AI chatbot he worked with, known as LaMDA, had become ‘sentient’.
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