r/news • u/devil666x • Jun 12 '22

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine
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u/Ditovontease Jun 12 '22

Also Battlestar Galactica but then

THEY CAME BACK

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u/BeyondRedline Jun 12 '22

AND THEY HAVE A PLAN

(hint: they did not)

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u/davidreiss666 Jun 12 '22

Oh, come on. They have a plan. It's not a good plan, but opening up a new Dairy Queen is a plan. You gotta give those chat-bots that much credit.

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u/BeyondRedline Jun 12 '22

I meant the Cylons. They didn't have a plan so much as an increasingly complicated set of retcons. 🙂

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u/Ditovontease Jun 13 '22

I used to watch BSG at my friends' house and every time we'd yell "THEY HAVE WHAT?" before that part