Leaked Document Hints Google AI Has Gained Sentience; Engineer Placed on Leave

A Google engineer who says the company’s artificial intelligence experiment has crossed a line says he has been put on administrative leave for speaking out.
Engineer Blake Lemoine initially engaged with LaMDA, Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications, to learn if it used hate speech or discriminatory language.
What he found, he said, was that the computer program had actually attained “sentience,” meaning self-awareness to the point where it has actual feelings