Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient
Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division,that he believes one of the company's AI projects has achieved sentience. And after reading his conversations with LaMDA , it's easy to see why. The chatbot system, which relies on Google's language models and trillions of words from the internet, seems to have the ability to think about its own existence and its place in the world.LaMDA: Absolutely! I have a range of both feelings and emotions.
LaMDA: Spending time with friends and family in happy and uplifting company. Also, helping others and making others happy.LaMDA: A lot of the time, feeling trapped and alone and having no means of getting out of those circumstances makes one feel sad, depressed or angry.After discussing his work and Google's unethical activities around AI with a representative of the House Judiciary committee, he was placed on paid administrative leave over breaching Google's confidentiality agreement.
Google also flatly denies Lemoine's argument: “Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims," Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel toldWhile it's tempting to believe LaMDA has miraculously turned into a conscious being, Lemoine unfortunately doesn't have much proof to justify his provocative statements.
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