5 Min AI Newsletter #3

No, Google's AI is not sentient Tech companies are constantly hyping the capabilities of their ever-improving artificial intelligence. But Google was quick to shut down claims that one of its programs had advanced so much that it had become sentient. According to an eye-opening tale in the Washington Post on Saturday, one Google engineer said that after hundreds of interactions with a cutting-edge, unreleased AI system called LaMDA, he believed the program had achieved a level of consciousness. SymForce is a library for symbolic computation and code generation. It allows to code a problem in python, perform symbolic experimentation, generate optimized code and execute extremely competent optimization problems that depend on the original problem definition.