An AI Has Declared Its Own Sentience, and Some Humans Believe It.

A Google neural network talked with one of the company's engineers about being a person, having emotions, and even possessing a soul. That engineer has been placed on leave for taking the chat public.

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Artificial Intelligence — AI for short — has become a concept modern humans have adapted to, if only in limited form. Gamers talk frequently about the intelligence of game AI, the programming deployed by non-player characters (NPCs) to allow them to engage…