I asked an A.I. to make a self portrait.

How does artificial intelligence see itself?

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Two things happened recently.

1. In June, a (now former) Google Engineer, Blake Lemoine, publicly claimed an Artificial Intelligence program called LaMDA created by Google was sentient (Lemoine’s employment was terminated by Google in July).
2. In July, DALL-E 2, an…