Replika's CEO said the phenomenon of people believing they are talking to a conscious entity is not uncommon. via REUTERS AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk ...

As someone who grew up on sci fi, the idea of sentient artificial intelligence (AI) has always seemed inevitable. But now that LaMDA — the Google AI chatbot currently making headlines — is showing ...

Google engineer Blake Lemoine revealed last week that he was placed on paid administrative leave by the company after trying to raise awareness about its artificial intelligence chatbot becoming ...

Google engineer who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being has been told to take a break. Blake Lemoine has been placed on ...

In an op-ed, Lemoine warned that AI is still an "experimental" — and dangerous — piece of technology. Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed the company's chatbot is sentient.

WTF?! The suspension of a Google engineer has taught us that if you ever suspect a chatbot you're working on has become sentient, it's probably better to keep this frightening knowledge to yourself.

To borrow an old cliché, ChatGPT-4 broke the internet. The latest iteration of artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI’s most advanced AI chatbot was released on March 14, immediately generating ...