Chatbots

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The engineerba lemoyne has been suspended from google for publishing transcripts of his conversations with the chatbot in which it responded to questions about itself and its experiences. The guardian science editor, and this is science weekly, kate crawford, you're a professor and author working on a i and machine learn. So how does this chappot actually work? An how like is it that one of these a i systems could ever become conscious? I may ensample.

Last week an engineer at Google claimed that an AI chatbot he worked with, known as LaMDA, had become ‘sentient’. Blake Lemoine published a transcript of his conversations with LaMDA that included responses about having feelings and fearing death. But could it really be conscious? AI researcher and author Kate Crawford speaks to Ian Sample about how LaMDA actually works, and why we shouldn’t worry about the inner life of software – for now.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod