When Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed an AI chat system that the company's been developing was sentient back in June, he knew he might lose his job. On July 22, after placing him on paid leave, the tech giant fired Lemoine for violating employment and data security policies....
As for Google, the company says the AI chatbot isn't sentient, and it's simply working as intended. This is all just a case of an overzealous, faith-friendly engineer being consumed by its AI's effectiveness at the mere task it was created for: communication. ...
Alphabet's Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) was a self-aware person. Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave ...
Google and many leading scientists were quick to dismiss software engineer Blake Lemoine's views as misguided, saying LaMDA is simply a complex algorithm designed to generate convincing human language Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated compan...
(ZH) A Google engineer has decided to go public after he was placed onpaid leavefor breaching confidentiality while insisting that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA,is sentient. Blake Lemoine, who works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, began interacting with LaMDA (Language Model for...
Google Fires Engineer Who Claimed Artificial Intelligence Technology was Sentient Google has fired the engineer who claimed an artificial intelligence chatbot had gained consciousness. Blake Lemoine, raised ethical concerns with the company last month after he became convinced the AI...