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Opinion: A Google engineer said an artificial-intelligence program came to life. This is why that couldn’t happen

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News that resembles the plot of the 2013 sci-fi movie “Her” has made rounds in the media. Google engineer Blake Lemoine risked his career to try and prove to his peers and general public that LaMDA, the algorithm he was working on, had somehow become sentient. Lemoine was allegedly reprimanded by the tech giant for…

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Opinion: Delivery drones, robotaxis, even insurance – wildly hyped dreams for AI startups are giving tech investors nightmares

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Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was a persuasive promoter. She convinced many presumably intelligent people that Theranos had developed a technology which could take a few blood drops from a finger prick to test for myriad diseases. The Theranos hoopla turned out to be just another point on the Silicon Valley “Fake-it-Till-You-Make-it” spectrum of BS. This…

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