Part 1 of 1.

This story is about an artificial intelligence chatbot named LaMDA and the Google engineer who thinks it has become sentient.

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This is Season X. Our anthology season where we bring you a new case each episode. We'll return to this season occasionally to bring you more 1-off stories.

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Featured Promo: Morbidology
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Music:

Emmanuel Witzthum, The Symphonic Garden Piece 2
https://soundcloud.com/fluid-radio/emmanuel-witzthum-the-symphonic-garden-piece-2

Augusta Treverorum, Nightmares
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20Six Hundred, Cimmerian Shade/Last Moments
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Sources:

https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/scientific-data-and-religious-opinions-ff9b0938fc10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

https://www.deseret.com/2022/6/13/23165797/blake-lemoine-google-sentient-artificial-intelligence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

Originally published: June 23, 2022