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  • The 11 Best (and Worst) Sentient Robots From Sci-Fi

    The 11 Best (and Worst) Sentient Robots From Sci-Fi

    Earlier this month, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed his employer had inadvertently created a sentient AI chatbot system, called Language Model for Dialogue Applications — or LaMDA, for short. Lemoine had been tasked with seeing if the LaMDA’s programming showed any tendencies toward hate speech or discrimination in conversation with the average person, the…