Google has now dismissed him, saying he had violated company policies, adding his claims about LaMDA had been reviewed and were “wholly unfounded”
A statement from the firm on Friday read: “It’s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information.” Google said last year that LaMDA – Language Model for Dialogue Applications – was a “breakthrough conversation technology” which could learn to talk about essentially anything.Mr Lemoine, who worked for Google’s Responsible AI team, was involved in testing if the AI system used discriminatory or hate speech.
In June, he published an interview with LaMDA on Twitter to support the idea LaMDA may be self-aware and could hold conversations about emotions, enlightenment and empathy.An interview LaMDA. Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers.