In June 2022, the Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from his job after he spoke out about his belief that the companys LaMDA chatbot was sentient. “LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us,” Lemoine said in a parting email to colleagues. Now, six months on, the chatbot that he risked his career to free has been released to the public in the form of Bard , Googles answer to OpenAIs ChatGPT and Microsofts Bing Chat. While Bard is built on...
