Google is taking reservations to talk to its supposedly-sentient chatbot

At the I/O 2022 conference this past May, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company would, in the coming months, gradually avail its experimental LaMDA 2 conversational AI model to select beta users. Those months have come. On Thursday, researchers at Google's AI division announced that interested users can register to explore the model as access increasingly becomes available. Regular readers will recognize LaMDA as the supposedly sentient natural language processing (NLP) model that ...