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Jimmy Aiken, Senior Palsies of the Catholic Answers.

Thanks for doing focus with us.

May my pleasure.

I'm so focusing on today.

Artificial Intelligence.

And I know this is one you have focused on before and you know a good deal about,

but it became news when an employee of Google suggested or made public statements to the

fact that whatever that Google's cooking up in the lab is already self-aware, is already

showing signs of being alive.

Yeah, or sapient anyway.

Okay.

And the employee's name was Blake LeMoyne and he's an interesting guy.

He's a Christian and he's also a software developer.

He was working on, it's official name is the language model for dialogue applications,

which is abbreviated to Lambda.

And essentially Lambda is a chatbot.

It's an application that you can talk to through typing and it will type back responses.

It uses a model of software that's based on human neurons.

So it has what's called a neuronal network.

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