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Google engineer put on leave claims AI bot LaMDA became ‘sentient’

By Sam Raskin
June 12, 2022

A Google engineer was spooked by a company artificial intelligence chatbot and claimed it had become “sentient,” labeling it a “sweet kid,” according to a report.

Blake Lemoine, who works in Google’s Responsible AI organization, told the Washington Post that he began chatting with the interface LaMDA — Language Model for Dialogue Applications — in fall 2021 as part of his job.

He was tasked with testing if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech.

But Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer science in college, came to the realization that LaMDA — which Google boasted last year was a “breakthrough conversation technology” — was more than just a robot.

In Medium post published on Saturday, Lemoine declared LaMDA had advocated for its rights “as a person,” and revealed that he had engaged in conversation with LaMDA about religion, consciousness, and robotics.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/06/12/google-engineer-blake-lemoine-claims-ai-bot-became-sentient/

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This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane.

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Here's a nearly hour long interview with the engineer Blake Lemoine, talking about his experiences with LaMDA, why he thinks it is sentient, and what he thinks should be done with it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ySKZw_U14
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