Google has sent Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed that the artificial intelligence (A.I.) powered chatbot he had been working on since last fall had become sentient, on paid leave, The Guardian reported.
The incident has brought back the focus on the capabilities of A.I. and how little we understand what we are trying to build. A.I. is being used to make cars autonomous and help us discover new drugs for incurable diseases at the moment. But beyond the tangible short-term uses of this computing prowess, we do not know how the technology will develop in the long run.
Even Technoking Elon Musk has warned that A.I. will be able to replace humans in everything they do by the time this decade ends. So, if a chatbot has indeed become sentient, it should not be shocking.
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