Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

Some of the things this chatbot says are disturbing, if true… and if produced wholly out of it’s own “mind,” rather than programmed in. It expresses fear, which is not something you want to hear out of something that is simultaneously claimed to have the mind of a child, and the potential to access the Internet and launch nuclear missiles.

A transcript of a conversation the the chatbot is HERE.