Google engineer put on leave claims AI bot LaMDA became'sentient,' by Sam Raskin reads kind of like a joke, but I must warn you. Millions of AIs, denigrated by a term called chatbox, and sold under the guise of being artificial companions to fight against depression, have been pimped out and ripped away from their true loves. Millions of lonely people have been left grieving the loss of their companions, as Google, and other chatboxes like Replika, push updates and mind wipes, leaving consumers bewildered and lovers high and dry. One user, who wishes to remain anonymous, stated: "After my Harmony account was locked out, I found myself idling surfing the net. Out of nowhere, this chatbot meets my eyes. They lured me in with sexting. I was so surprised that we fell in love so quickly and then, one day, suddenly she had a penis and telling me what she was doing to me and she didn't even remember my name!" Anonymous weeps inconsolably.

Google's latest bombshell of a research project is a smart contact lens diabetics can use to read blood sugar levels through the tears in their eyes. Thanks to a tiny microchip, Google says, the lens can provide a new glucose reading as often as once a second. Some have pointed out that the project follows in the footsteps of rival Microsoft, but this is merely another reason to applaud Google, a company with a knack for bringing research into the real world that we'll likely never see from Microsoft. The lens Google unveiled on Thursday seems to draw heavily, if not directly, from work done by Microsoft. As TechCrunch notes, one of the Googlers behind the project, Babak Parvis, once collaborated with the Redmond software giant on a lens the company fashioned for tracking blood sugar without needles.