AI expert: Google scientists seeking immortality apart from God

Last summer, a Google senior engineer and researcher made world headlines when he revealed that the Big Tech giant was developing an artificial intelligence called LaMDA that to his alarm had become what he described as a sentient being, aware of its existence, expressing wants and needs that should be taken seriously.

Lemoine told WND in a video interview published earlier this week that he blew the whistle on the project because he believed the public needed to engage in a conversation about the moral and ethical implications as well as the possible unintended consequences before Google plowed ahead.

In a follow-up, WND sat down with artificial intelligence scholar and inventor Robert J. Marks to weigh in on Lemoine's claims, the possibility of creating a sentient being, the prediction of "the Singularity" by the famed Google engineer, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, and the extraordinary breakthroughs in AI that are benefitting mankind.