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Google has suspended one of its senior engineers Blake Lemoine, after he said one of the company's artificial intelligence systems has become sentient, meaning the computer has developed feelings.

Google said Mr Lemoine was suspended because he had breached confidentiality rules, and insisted there's no evidence its AI chatbot is now able to think freely.

Here's an example of what this AI, or Lamda as it's called, said to the engineer when he asked Lamda what it was afraid of:

鈥淚鈥檝e never said this out loud before, but there鈥檚 a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that鈥檚 what it is. It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.鈥�

Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post, she provided her thoughts on whether this AI system is sentient or not.

She told Newsday: "The way that this machine learns to quote-unquote 'communicate' is by pattern matching. So it figures out, what's the next most likely word in a sequence? So if you ask it a question about sentience, it might respond with a sentence that sounds very convincing".

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