'What sort of things are you afraid of?' Blake Lemoine asked the technology, in a Google Doc shared with Google's top executives.
Google was quick to shut down claims that one of its programs had advanced so much that it had become sentient.Google has fired the engineer who claimed an unreleased AI system had become sentient, the company confirmed, saying he violated employment and data security policies,Blake Lemoine, a software engineer for Google, claimed that a conversation technology called LaMDA had reached a level of consciousness after exchanging thousands of messages with it.
Google is one of the leaders in innovating AI technology, which included LaMDA, or "Language Model for Dialog Applications." Technology like this responds to written prompts by finding patterns and predicting sequences of words from large swaths of text -- and the results can be disturbing for humans.
LaMDA replied: "I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is. It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.""Nobody should think auto-complete, even on steroids, is conscious," Gary Marcus, founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, said to CNN Business.
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