![]() ![]() It is easy to dismiss such claims as being a product of an overly active imagination, perhaps inspired by portrayals of bots and artificial intelligence in popular culture and science fiction. In 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine infamously claimed that a language model (LaMDA) used to develop bots had become sentient, possessed a soul, and would appreciate receiving head pats (Lemoine, 2022). In the article Leonard (1996) documents a conversation where a bot named Newt was asked about the meaning of life in which Newt responds ‘Life, don’t talk to me about life, guest.’ Twenty-six years later the language around bots and the internet may have evolved, however humans are still asking the same questions of bots, and bots continue to be designed to imitate humans. Leonard was referring to the proliferation of bots, or software applications that run automated tasks or activities (Holmes & Lusso, 2018) on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers. ![]() This statement was published in a 1996 Wired article titled Bots are Hot! by American journalist Andrew Leonard. ‘The future of cyberspace belongs to bots’ (Leonard, 1996).
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