Google offers glimpse of ultra-realistic chat tech
Google has launched a UK version of an app that lets users interact with the artificial-intelligence system one of its engineers has claimed is sentient.
It is a very limited trial, with just three scenarios to choose from.
And while Google wants feedback about how its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (Lamda) performs, the app users cannot teach it any new tricks.
The company has always maintained the technology, used to power chatbots, and has no independent thoughts and feelings.
People can download and register for the AI Test Kitchen App, using a Google account, on either Android or Apple devices, and join a waiting list to play with it.
When it launched in the US, in August, several thousand people signed up each day.
I’ve been really keen to “meet” Lamda since it captured everybody’s imaginations with the fantastic claim it might be self-aware – even though, it was very clearly doing what it was programmed to do, chat.
First, I asked Lamda to imagine it was on a marshmallow planet.
And the response was far more sophisticated than anything I have seen from chatbots in everyday life, on shopping sites and banking apps for example.
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