If you’ve seen his interview you know its not sentient. Or at least, its very unlikely to be. Not to say Google wouldn’t want to make a hyperintelligent digital slave, but this chat bot really isn’t there. This Blake person was just kind of a nut, they also believed in “Christian Mysticism” and stuff.

This has been known for a while, remember I listened to a podcast a while ago about this. Surprised there are still news stories being released on it as most of the scientific community has known about it for a while.

Who could’ve guess that stuffing people into permanent poverty had negative mental health effects? Truely a shock.