An engineer at Google said he was placed on leave

Monday after claiming an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient.

Blake Lemoine told The Washington Post he began chatting with the interface LaMA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, last fall as part of his job at Google's Responsible Al organization. Google called LaMA their "breakthrough conversation technology" last year.

The conversational artificial intelligence is capable of engaging in natural-sounding, open-ended

conversations. Google has said the technology could be used in tools like search and Google Assistant, but research and testing is ongoing.

Lemoine published some of the conversations he had with LaMDA, which he called a "person."

Google said the evidence he presented does not support his claims of LaMA's sentience.

Date: 13th June, 2022