They said there is no evidence to support them.
Blake Lemoine, the engineer, worked in Google's Responsible Artificial Intelligence Organization.īut Lemoine, who didn't respond to a request for comment from Insider, is apparently on his own when it comes to his claims about the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot: A Google spokesperson said a team of ethicists and technologists have reviewed Lemoine's claims. The engineer told The Washington Post that in chatting with Google's interface called LaMDA - or Language Model for Dialogue Applications - he had begun to believe that the chatbot had become "sentient," or able to perceive and feel just like a human. It's unlikely - if not impossible - that a Google chatbot has come to life, experts told Insider after one of the search giant's senior engineers was suspended for making startling claims.