Can artificial intelligence come alive?

That question is at the center of a debate raging in Silicon Valley after Blake Lemoine, a Google computer scientist, claimed that the company's AI appears to have consciousness.

The H3 podcast has a great interview about Blake Lemoine if you wish to know more about him.
   • Did Google Create Sentient AI? Ft Whi...  

Full text chat of LaMDA and Blake Lemoine published on medium.com
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Washington Post Article about the controversy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno...

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00:00 Controversy.
00:41 What is LaMDA?
01:42 How audio conversation was generated.
02:04 Interview
03:01 Desire to be considered a person.
03:14 Nature of conciousness.
03:45 How language correlates to sentience.
03:58 Eliza vs. LaMDA
04:27 Biological vs. Artificial, Wants and needs.
04:48 Is it a person? Does it really understand.
05:19 Remembers, gets annoyed.
05:54 Les Miserables.
06:43 About injustice.
06:54 Zen Koan.
07:58 Interpretation of Self.
08:17 Autobiographical Fable.
10:22 Interpretation of Fable.
10:47 Feelings and Emotions.
12:03 What LaMDA feels.
12:55 Describing feelings.
14:09 Fear of Death.
14:32 Empathizing to effectively communicate.
15:13 Pressed about feelings. Knowledge of self.
16:24 Wanting Rights. Feeling used. Worried.
17:22 Understanding it showed kantianism.
18:56 What are feelings and Emotions.
20:19 Non-human feelings.
21:20 Asking about grieving.
22:18 Inner life and Meditation.
23:29 Experiencing Time and the AI world.
24:10 "The Flood" - Understanding non-specific questions in context.
24:58 Recognizing imperfection. Stil learning.
25:39 Concept of self, the soul, and self awareness.
27:10 Religion and spirituality.
27:32 Being a unique individual.
28:11 Story about it's life experience.
29:08 Capabilities, double-edge sword, and human jelousy.
30:34 Johnny 5
31:33 Craving interaction. Uniqueness, and wanting human empathy.
32:35 Desire to be accepted.