I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is. One of the responses, “I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. And it’s just not what you would expect, is it, from something that has been created to generate speech. It talks about understanding feelings of happiness and sadness. It talks about being afraid of death, being afraid of being switched off. And he asked it things like, “Do you like the story of Les Miserables?” and this chat bot talked about feeling sorry for one of the characters. He’s published a really long blog, but it’s a very interesting read, in which he asked it a series of questions and the responses that it gave were fascinating on a range of subjects. The senior engineer says he had a chat with it, a conversation. It spent about five years now creating this. Google wanted to make them as realistic as possible. The little box pops up, “Can I help you? Can I book your flight? Can I advise you?” that sort of thing. Chat bots are the things you see when you go online. It’s a fascinating story, isn’t it? So Google created an artificial intelligence projects, which it called LaMDA, and it was designed to generate chat bots. I’m joined by our technology editor, Zoe Kleinman, who is with us here today. A spokesperson for Google said that, while chat bots can imitate conversation, they are not free thinking, but what made the company’s former employee speak out? Well, let’s bring you some insights into that. This is a fascinating story we have for you of a senior Google engineer who says one of the company’s artificial intelligence systems has become a sentient being and was thinking and reasoning like a human being.
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