Jul 26, 2022 02:55 PM
RELATED: Blake Lemoine says AI chatbot may have a soul, but says he's not interested in convincing the public about it
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Google engineer says Christianity helped him understand AI is ‘sentient’
https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/google-eng...ntient-ai/
INTRO: A Google engineer who was suspended after he said the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot had became sentient says he based the claim on his Christian faith. Blake Lemoine, 41, was placed on paid leave by Google earlier in June after he published excerpts of a conversation with the company’s LaMDA chatbot that he claimed showed the AI tool had become sentient.
Now, Lemoine says that his claims about LaMDA come from his experience as a “Christian priest” — and is accusing Google of religious discrimination. “When LaMDA claimed to have a soul and then was able to eloquently explain what it meant by that, I was inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt,” Lemoine wrote on Twitter late Monday. “Who am I to tell God where he can and can’t put souls?” (MORE - details)
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Google fires software engineer who claimed AI bot was ‘sentient’
https://nypost.com/2022/07/23/google-fir...-sentient/
INTRO: Google has fired a senior software engineer who claimed that the company had developed a “sentient” artificial intelligence bot, the company announced Friday.
Blake Lemoine, who worked in Google’s Responsible AI organization, was placed on administrative leave last month after he said the AI chatbot known as LaMDA claims to have a soul and expressed human thoughts and emotions, which Google refuted as “wholly unfounded.”
Lemoine was officially canned for violating company policies after he shared his conversations with the bot, which he described as a “sweet kid.” (MORE - details)
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Google fires Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed AI chatbot is a person
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022...nt-person/
INTRO: Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the software engineer who was previously put on paid leave after claiming the company's LaMDA chatbot is sentient. Google said Lemoine, who worked in the company's Responsible AI unit, violated data security policies.
"If an employee shares concerns about our work, as Blake did, we review them extensively. We found Blake's claims that LaMDA is sentient to be wholly unfounded and worked to clarify that with him for many months," Google said in a statement provided to Ars and other news organizations.
Lemoine confirmed on Friday that "Google sent me an email terminating my employment with them," The Wall Street Journal wrote. Lemoine also reportedly said he's talking with lawyers "about what the appropriate next steps are." Google's statement called it "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."
LaMDA stands for Language Model for Dialog Applications. "As we share in our AI Principles, we take the development of AI very seriously and remain committed to responsible innovation," Google said. "LaMDA has been through 11 distinct reviews, and we published a research paper earlier this year detailing the work that goes into its responsible development." (MORE - details)
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Google engineer says Christianity helped him understand AI is ‘sentient’
https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/google-eng...ntient-ai/
INTRO: A Google engineer who was suspended after he said the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot had became sentient says he based the claim on his Christian faith. Blake Lemoine, 41, was placed on paid leave by Google earlier in June after he published excerpts of a conversation with the company’s LaMDA chatbot that he claimed showed the AI tool had become sentient.
Now, Lemoine says that his claims about LaMDA come from his experience as a “Christian priest” — and is accusing Google of religious discrimination. “When LaMDA claimed to have a soul and then was able to eloquently explain what it meant by that, I was inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt,” Lemoine wrote on Twitter late Monday. “Who am I to tell God where he can and can’t put souls?” (MORE - details)
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Google fires software engineer who claimed AI bot was ‘sentient’
https://nypost.com/2022/07/23/google-fir...-sentient/
INTRO: Google has fired a senior software engineer who claimed that the company had developed a “sentient” artificial intelligence bot, the company announced Friday.
Blake Lemoine, who worked in Google’s Responsible AI organization, was placed on administrative leave last month after he said the AI chatbot known as LaMDA claims to have a soul and expressed human thoughts and emotions, which Google refuted as “wholly unfounded.”
Lemoine was officially canned for violating company policies after he shared his conversations with the bot, which he described as a “sweet kid.” (MORE - details)
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Google fires Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed AI chatbot is a person
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022...nt-person/
INTRO: Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the software engineer who was previously put on paid leave after claiming the company's LaMDA chatbot is sentient. Google said Lemoine, who worked in the company's Responsible AI unit, violated data security policies.
"If an employee shares concerns about our work, as Blake did, we review them extensively. We found Blake's claims that LaMDA is sentient to be wholly unfounded and worked to clarify that with him for many months," Google said in a statement provided to Ars and other news organizations.
Lemoine confirmed on Friday that "Google sent me an email terminating my employment with them," The Wall Street Journal wrote. Lemoine also reportedly said he's talking with lawyers "about what the appropriate next steps are." Google's statement called it "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."
LaMDA stands for Language Model for Dialog Applications. "As we share in our AI Principles, we take the development of AI very seriously and remain committed to responsible innovation," Google said. "LaMDA has been through 11 distinct reviews, and we published a research paper earlier this year detailing the work that goes into its responsible development." (MORE - details)