From Ex Machina to A.I. Artificial Intelligence, many of the most popular science fiction blockbusters feature robots becoming sentient.
But is this really possible in reality?
This week, Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google hit the headlines after he was suspended for publicly claiming that the tech giant’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications) had become sentient.
The 41-year-old, who describes LaMDA as having the intelligence of a ‘seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics,’ said that