Google has fired software engineer who claimed that AI chatbot is a self aware person

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Google has fired software engineer who claimed
that AI chatbot is a self aware person
Google has dismissed a senior software engineer
who claimed the companys artificial intelligence
chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.
Google, which placed software engineer Blake
Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated
company policies and that it found his claims on
LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications)
to be wholly unfounded.
Blake Lemoine says Googles AI bot is intensely
worried that people are going to be afraid of it
but one expert dismissed his claims as
nonsense. Google engineer says AI bot wants to
serve humanity but experts dismissive
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Its 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, Google said LaMDA was built on the
companys research showing transformer- based
language models trained on dialogue could learn
to talk about essentially anything.
Lemoine, an engineer for Googles responsible AI
organisation, described the system he has been
working on as sentient, with a perception of, and
ability to express, thoughts and feelings that
was equivalent to a human child. If I didnt
know exactly what it was, which is this computer
program we built recently, Id think it was a
seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens
to know physics, Lemoine, 41, told the
Washington Post.
He said LaMDA engaged him in conversations about
rights and personhood, and Lemoine shared his
findings with company executives in April in a
GoogleDoc entitled Is LaMDA sentient?
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The engineer compiled a transcript of the
conversations, in which at one point he asks the
AI system what it is afraid of.
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Google and many leading scientists were quick to
dismiss Lemoines views as misguided, saying
LaMDA is simply a complex algorithm designed to
generate convincing human language. Credits/HELP
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