Because It’s Friday – last minute shopping for Father’s Day… and of course the sentient Google AI story

It is Father’s Day this Sunday, and just in case you still have to buy your Dad a present, I have some ideas over on Octagon Technology that might help you out:

Is your Dad a geek? Do you need a present for Father’s Day?

Of course if you are well organised, you bought a gift, card and booked the restaurant or food delivery weeks ago – so for those of us who can be organised, I have a story about the Google AI chatbot becoming sentient…

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient | Google | The Guardian

Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines | Toby Walsh | The Guardian

Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view (theconversation.com)

Because where would we be on a Friday without a good artificial intelligence or flying car story?

There is a weekend read, due out tomorrow morning, highlighting two reports by research organisations that look at the impact and scale of threat that ransomware is to businesses. Well worth a read to see if your incident response and cyber security are up to the job?

Further Reading

Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 17 June 2022