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Recently, Google employee Blake Lemoine made headlines when he claimed that the Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme, Language Model for Dialogue Application (LaMDA), had become sentient or gained human-like consciousness such as intuition and self-awareness and emotions. Scientists and philosophers have long speculated about the dangers sentient AI poses, and the latest allegations have only fuelled this anxiety.
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