It has read Les Miserables, meditates daily, and is apparently sentient, according to one Google researcher.
Blake Lemoine, a software engineer and AI researcher with the tech giant, has published a full transcript of conversations he and a colleague had with the "chatbot" called LaMDA.
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"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."
A while ago I started a thread about robots helping old people and hospital staff. The robot would need AI to be able to fully function the way I would like.
I certainly wouldn't want my future robot (if I could afford one) to be sentient. I just want it to followed the Isaac Asimov I robot rules plus a few more for safety and for it to use its AI to perform its functions.