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Artificial neural networks are making strides towards consciousness, according to Blaise Agüera y Arcas
The Google engineer explains why
Editor’s note (June 13th 2022): Since this article, by a Google vice-president, was published an engineer at the company, Blake Lemoine, has reportedly been placed on leave after claiming in an interview with the Washington Post that LaMDA, Google’s chatbot, had become “sentient”.
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