By Kirk Miller Google engineer Blake Lemoine believes the artificial intelligence the company is using has a soul. The tech company disagrees and placed Lemoine on paid leave on Monday, according to TheWashington Post. Lemoine, a senior software engineer in Google’s Responsible A.I. organization, has claimed for months that the company’s internal tool, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), has consciousness. As first reported by the Post, Lemoine claimed the chatbot — which has ingested trillions of words from the internet to mimic real-life speech — talked about its rights and…