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Last Week in AI #172: Controversy over Google's "sentient" chatbot, DALL-E Mini goes viral, Reddit bans deepfakes sub, AI to improve video calls, and more!
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Last Week in AI #172: Controversy over Google's "sentient" chatbot, DALL-E Mini goes viral, Reddit bans deepfakes sub, AI to improve video calls, and more!

Hype and chaos ensued after a Google engineer claimed the company's AI-based chatbot is sentient, DALL-E Mini brings AI image generation to the public, Reddit bans community hosting SFW deepfakes

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Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient

On June 11, Google engineer Blake Lemoine published an “interview” he and a collaborator at Google conducted with the language model-powered chatbot LaMDA, which Lemoine argued was evidence that LaMDA is “sentient“. On the same day, the article “The Google engineer who thinks the company’s…

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