Google put Blake Lemoine, an engineer at the company, on leave after he claimed the company’s AI had become sentient.
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It wasn’t science that convinced Google engineer Blake Lemoine that one of the company’s AIs is sentient. Lemoine, who is also an ordained Christian mystic priest, says it was the AI’s comments about religion, as well as his ‘personal, spiritual beliefs,’ that helped persuade him the technology had thoughts, feelings, and a soul.
‘I’m a priest.