Suspended Google engineer claims company's AI system is sentient

There have been huge advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), with most of the work taking place quietly at private companies.

Now one software engineer has got himself suspended for going public. Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer with Google, is on paid leave after going public with claims the tech giant's artificial intelligence has consciousness and a soul.

Mike Drolet looks at Lemoine's conversation with the chatbot Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, and whether humans are ready for another form of intelligence beyond our own.

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