DANIELA RIBITSCH: Last summer, Google fired Blake Lemoine, one of their software engineers, for publicly claiming that LaMDA, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI), was sentient (having the ower of perception by the senses or consciousness.) I read the transcript of Lemoine’s conversation with LaMDA. When the chatbot declared to be “a person” and “introspective,” and … Continue reading Gaining Human Favor: Automated intelligence (AI) or animals?