Neowin News Feed for: Sentient

OpenAI's smartest ChatGPT model "misbehaves," refuses shut down in controlled testing

Sayan Sen — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:52:01 +0000

OpenAI's "smartest" o3 model has been "misbehaving" and is refusing to shut down even when explicitly told to. Read more...

Google's LaMDA AI sentient? More like "pure clickbait" says AI expert

Sayan Sen — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:24:02 +0000

A Google ex-employee claimed that the company's LaMDA AI had become sentient. However, Google did not agree and now, another expert agrees saying that the stories were "pure clickbait". Read more...

Google fires engineer who claimed that company's AI has become sentient

Usama Jawad — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 05:52:01 +0000

Google has fired a senior engineer who claimed that the company's AI has become sentient and wants to be recognized as a person who has a say in its future, essentially passing the Turing Test. Read more...

Google engineer believes company's AI has become sentient, gets put on administrative leave

Usama Jawad — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:54:01 +0000

A Google engineer has been put on paid administrative leave following his claims that the company's LaMDA AI model has become sentient and wants to be acknowledged as a person with consent rights. Read more...