Why is Google so alarmed by the prospect of a sentient machine? | John Naughton

The tech giant seems to be running scared over an engineer’s claim that its language model has feelings

Humans are, as someone once observed, “language animals”, implying that the ability to communicate linguistically is unique to humans. Over the last decade, machine-learning researchers, most of whom work for the big tech companies, have been labouring to disprove that proposition. In 2020, for example, OpenAI, an artificial intelligence lab based in San Francisco, unveiled GPT-3, the third iteration of …

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