Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai touched upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) acquiring sentience in an interview at Vox Media’s Code Conference Tuesday.
What Happened
Pichai discussed the case of a Google employee who was fired for claiming that the company’s AI chatbot was sentient, reported The Verge.
The Google CEO repeated the company’s position that the bot was not sentient and said, “The story was much bigger than I expected.”
He said, “The truth is we are far from it and we may never get there,” according to The Verge.
Why It Matters
In July, Google fired Blake Lemoine, an engineer, who said the search engine giant’s chatbot is sentient. The company had previously suspended Lemoine in June….