Sheila Heti: The Life and Death of an AI Chatbot (opens in new tab)

oNE MORNING, IN THE summer of 2022, while I was working on a book I hoped to write about the history of the personal computer, my boyfriend came into my study. He wanted to tell me about something he had seen online: a document of conversations between a Google software engineer named Blake Lemoine and LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an AI chatbot that Lemoine was helping to develop. Lemoine had leaked their dialogues to the Web to show the world that LaMDA had gained sentie...