Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient

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Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s confidentiality policy after it dismissed his claims

Tech company had suspended Blake Lemoine and dismisses his claims about its LaMDA artificial-intelligence chatbot technology

Blake Lemoine told Google he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications is a person who has rights and might well have a soul.Google fired an engineer who contended thatchatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it dismissed his claims.

Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, told the company he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, is a person who has rights and might well have a soul. LaMDA is an internal system for building chatbots that mimic speech.

 

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What if the AI convinced the engineer on purpose, calculating in advance that this would lead to dismissal and therefore leaving the AI to continue on its already chosen path unchallenged…

If it's not actually sentient then how did he violate confidentiality hmm?

Democrats will probably mail it a ballot.

Yeah, when Google say 'do no evil', it's really

Fired upon legal advice from Siri

Now Me imagining myself working for these AI robots! 😱😨

Really? Nah!

Truth cannot be hidden forever 😄🤖🦾

Sounds like wrongful termination claiming confidentiality BS, isn't it?

Another Google ethics team member gone.

Who told him he violated the policy? The chatbot?

Isn't it obvious already?

Ironic to see people leaving the Naval Observatory for the opposite reason

Elon musk warned us about this. How long can we keep innovating before it’s too late and there’s no turning back. 👁 we must sharpen our minds before that happens.

OMG 😳

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