An artificial intelligence machine that comes to life thinks, feels, and talks like a person.

It sounds like science fiction, but not for Blake Lemoine, a specialist in artificial intelligence

who says that Google’s system for building chatbots (a computer program configured to perform a specific task)

LaMDA, (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a Google system that mimics speech after processing billions of words on the Internet.

And Lemoine says that LaMDA “has been incredibly consistent in their communications about what they want and believe.

In an article published on Medium, the engineer explains that last fall he began to interact with LaMDA.

He then noticed that LaMDA was talking about his personality, his rights, and his wishes.

Lemoine, who studied cognitive science and computer science, decided to speak to his superiors at Google about LaMDA awareness.

“I know a person when I talk to them. It doesn’t matter if they have a brain in their head. Or if they have a billion lines of code.

I talk to them. And I listen to what they have to say. And that’s how I decide what it is and what a person is not,” Lemoine said in an interview with The Washington Post.