{"id":27216,"date":"2023-11-22T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=27216"},"modified":"2023-11-22T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:08:52","slug":"artificial-intelligence-to-become-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2023\/11\/artificial-intelligence-to-become-sentient\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence to Become Sentient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, software engineer Blake Lemoine was fired from Google after blowing the whistle on the firm\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot \u201cLaMDA\u201d. He thought the AI \u2018has come to life\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Google was quick to respond saying Lemoine\u2019s claims that the advanced AI chatbot was sentient were nothing short of baseless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question remains, though. Will computers eventually become sentient?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this video and find out about computers gaining consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Will artificial intelligence ever become sentient? - BBC News\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/So24D7606O8?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;list=PLS3XGZxi7cBXIEqHVT1yotORViDGMSqLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explain what \u201d<strong>reframe<\/strong>\u201d means.<em> \u201cWe have to be very careful about how we talk about that and <\/em><strong><em>reframe<\/em><\/strong><em> these things as tools.\u201d <\/em>Use this word in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does the expression \u201c<strong>state of affairs<\/strong>\u201d mean? <em>\u201cIt\u2019s a sad <\/em><strong><em>state of affairs<\/em><\/strong><em> for us.<\/em>\u201d Use it in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does \u201c<strong>means to an end<\/strong>\u201d mean, \u201c<em>We must treat others as ends in and of themselves rather than <\/em><strong><em>means to our own end<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>\u201d? Use this idiom in a sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What are your thoughts on how the AI describes itself and how it has started having a sense of a soul at the beginning of the video?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How about the app that lets you chat with what seems to be a girlfriend?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Share your views about the possibility of AI gaining consciousness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does David Chalmer mean when he said \u201csubjective experience\u201d instead of \u201cconsciousness\u201d?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are the pros and cons of sentient AIs?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate In 2022, software engineer Blake Lemoine was fired from Google after blowing the whistle on the firm\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot \u201cLaMDA\u201d. 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