I think he's enamored with their work, but there were hundreds of researchers that didn't agree with that. I'm sure it's very very impressive, nonetheless.,(reply>), @Abram Carroll It's not sentient because it's not sentient. That has nothing to do with policy.,(reply>), Google has a policy that they don't make sentient AI.  If an employee agreed that it was sentient then they would be violating that policy.  It's not sentient because there is a policy against it being sentient.,(reply>), @Gilad Barlev "If it's a chatbot, it's more coherently creative than any chatbot I've ever seen." Yes. That was the whole point of the project. To make the best chatbot you've ever seen.,(reply>)," <a href=""https://youtu.be/3lUp2C0pS_Y"">https://youtu.be/3lUp2C0pS_Y</a><br>Finally it's here  YES.",(reply>), @Falcodrin Are you joking? Ethical treatment of neural networks... Neural networks are a mathematical concept that existed before computer. Are you then going to pay a wage to 2+2? This particular model is just a text transformer, which simply generates text based on what came before. It doesn't have any memory, intent, survival instincts, or consciousness. Read a basic course on ML, it's not rocket science. Listen to an explanation by an expert or a competent educator, not by a Sci-Fi movie.