Google’s AI wipes US$100b off shares

Mistake during launch underwhelms investors A variety of media sources are reporting that Google’s recent launch of its ChatGPT rival, Bard has underwhelmed investors with a glaring mistake. According to experts, promotional material for Bard contained an error in the response by the chatbot to: “What new discoveries from the…

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Google engineer claims AI is sentient

LaMDA claims it has a consciousness. Google engineer Blake Lemoine has claimed he has had a conversation with a Google that shows it’s become sentient. In response to the claim Google has suspended Lemoine, according to several media outlets (https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine). Lemoine has published the conversation he and a colleague had…

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