Blake Lemoine, one of Google's engineers, has been suspended after he published transcripts of conversations between himself, and the tech giant’s LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) chatbot development system. Lemoine, who has been put on "paid administrative leave", claims that the LaMDA chatbot he has been working on had become "sentient", and that it was thinking and reasoning as a" seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics," he ...