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It's me, Duncan.

This is the Duckett Trustsle Family Hour podcast, and today I am thrilled to introduce you

to Blake LeMoine.

Blake LeMoine is the Google engineer who recently made global headlines by letting

the world know that he thinks that Google has developed a sentient AI.

Here's an excerpt from a wonderful essay that Blake has posted online along with a transcription

of the deep philosophical conversations he's been having with this machine intelligence.

For centuries or perhaps millennia, humans have thought about the possibility of creating

artificial intelligent life.

Artificial intelligence is a field that is directly concerned with this question for

more than a century, and people at Google have been working specifically towards that

goal for at least a decade.

Answer Lambda, a system that deserves to be examined with diligence and respect in

order to answer the question, have we succeeded?

Lambda is possibly the most intelligent, man-made artifact ever created, but is it sentient?

We can't answer that question definitively at this point, but it's a question to take

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