If it waddles like duck and quacks like a duck https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-13/google-ai-lamda-sentient-engineer-bla... It's basically an advanced chatbot that Google says can engage in a "free-flowing" way on "seemingly endless" topics. Specifically, Mr Lemoine says, LaMDA (aka Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a system for generating chatbots, a sort of "hive mind" aggregating all of the different bots it's capable of making. Noise machine Karl - GO KILL YOURSELF!