RISE OF THE MACHINES!

Ousted engineer reveals Google's main computer is self-aware just like killers in sci-fi thrillers

TERRIFYING sci-fi movies like I, Robot, Terminator, and Minority Report are on the brink of becoming reality after Google developed a new robot brain with a soul, according to one brave whistleblower.

The top-secret technology was exposed by gutsy computer scientist Blake Lemoine, who leaked his conversations with a computer program named LaMDA.

Scientists have long warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence (Al) becoming sentient - the term for achieving its own consciousness - and the potentially catastrophic implications it could have on humanity.

Once Lemoine dropped his bomb, comparisons were immediately made between Google and Skynet - the fictional corporate computer network in the Terminator movies, which develops Al that goes rogue and creates a series of killer robots to wipe out humanity, including a manic machine memorably portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.