From The New York Times:

For months, Mr. Lemoine had tussled with Google managers, executives and human resources over his surprising claim that the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, had consciousness and a soul. Google says hundreds of its researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA, an internal tool, and reached a different conclusion than Mr. Lemoine did. Most A.I. experts believe the industry is a very long way from computing sentience.

As these algorithms get more clever they may pass the Turing Test but whether they are conscious or have a soul is a much deeper question than whether they can convince a single person of that. Or as Qui-Got Jinn once quipped in Star Wars, “the ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”