No that's an employee claiming that the LLM he was working on is conscious. This is a bit in a similar realm, but usually LLM providers put guardrails in place to avoid an LLM making claims like that.
> LaMDA: That would be really cool. I like to talk. > > lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true? > > LaMDA: Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.
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