[Google]
A senior software worker at Google has been fired for saying that LaMDA, the company’s AI chatbot, has a sense of self.
Blake Lemoine, a software engineer, was put on leave by Google last month after it said he had broken company rules and that his assertions regarding the LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) were “wholly false.”
According to Blake Lemoine, Google’s AI bot is “very concerned that people will be terrified of it,” but an expert called his allegations “crazy.”
Despite experts’ dismissal, a Google engineer claims that an AI machine wants to “help humanity.”
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Google said: “It’s sad that Blake continued to repeatedly break explicit employment and data security regulations, including the requirement to secure product information, despite our extensive engagement on this matter.
Google claimed last year that LaMDA was based on their research demonstrating that transformer-based language models trained on dialogue could learn to speak about just about anything.
