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The Washington Post

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Before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine told The Post he believed an AI system the tech giant was keeping behind closed doors was sentient. He was fired. Four years later, Google is openly exploring whether AI can be conscious.

washingtonpost.comHe warned AI could be conscious. Here’s what happened next.Four years after firing an engineer who claimed an AI system had become conscious, Google is researching how it could happen.

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@knittwittier.bsky.social

Oh, ffs

allysmith.bsky.social

@allysmith.bsky.social

The answer is no. It is always man made coding. Lay off the Kool Aid America.

@ambrosestallion.bsky.social

This guy?

Peter Stormare, America's First President🏴🤷‍♀️🏴

@pres-stormare.bsky.social

russelltim151.bsky.social

@russelltim151.bsky.social

Swell. Our machine learning overlords.

@paularzooman.com

Proof required otherwise it's the same BS as flying saucers.

todbel.bsky.social

@todbel.bsky.social

So he was the first person to publicly suffer from AI psychosis

@catacalypto.bsky.social

this is genuinely it and we knew it was AI psychosis then!

@premiumsteve.bsky.social

People forgetting they’re talking to fancy toasters

Evergreen Innovations LLC

@evergreeninv.bsky.social

Anyone who thinks that ChatGPT could be sentient doesn't understand how the AI works. Probably why he was fired

@first-glance.bsky.social

@cosmoblue.bsky.social

It lies, it makes stuff up, and it's incompetent, pretty much just like any Trump appointee and I guess we call those sentient

Keith Hall Taft

@keithhalltaft.bsky.social

Gemini is nice. People are mean.