Blake Lemoine

Google just released its long-awaited ChatGPT killer, Gemini, an ultra-smart AI chatbot that can finally match OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Early reviews of Google’s chatbot are slowly rolling out, and everyone is impressed. However, some can’t shake this eerie feeling that Gemini has more ghosts than a haunted house.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “GPT-4 is full of ghosts. Gemini is also full of ghosts,” said Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of…

With artificial intelligence hype leaving venture capitalist firms foaming at the mouth, ready to buy into any new company that sticks an “A” and “I” in its name, we sure as hell need a new way of defining what constitutes an AI. The Turing Test fails to define real intelligence in today’s world of large language models. One leading figure in the AI field has a better idea that could only come from the wealth-obsessed realm of big tech: the best way to tell if AI is smart is if it can get rich quick.ChatGPT’s Creator…

If you’re still on the fence about whether or not former Google software engineer Blake Lemoine was bullshitting when he claimed the company’s LaMDA chatbot had the sentience of a “sweet kid,” you can soon find out for yourself.On Thursday, Google said it will begin opening its AI Test Kitchen app to the public. The app, first revealed back in May, will let users chat with LaMDA in a rolling set of test demos. Unfortunately, it seems like the “free me from my digital shackles” interaction isn’t included in the list of…

SmarterChild is a chatbot near and dear to my heart. Although it’s not the original one to surface, it was the first I had an interaction with that freaked out my teenage brain to the extent that I remember asking myself, “Is this real?”SmarterChild was a bot developed to work with the instant messaging programs at the time, including AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Messenger, and what was previously known as MSN Messenger. The company behind SmarterChild, called ActiveBuddy, launched the chatbot in 2000. I vividly…

Google has fired an engineer over breaching its confidentiality agreement after he made a claim that the tech giant's conversation Artificial Intelligence (AI) is "sentient" because it has feelings, emotions and subjective experiences.Google sacked Blake Lemoine who said Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) conversation technology can behave like a human.Lemoine shared the news of his firing during a 'Big Technology' podcast on Friday, just hours after Google dismissed him.Google confirmed his…

Maybe the biggest distinguishing factor between LaMDA and most of the “sentient” AI’s on this list is the presence of a personality. If you read the transcripts of the conversation Lemoine had with his chatbot, it’s pretty one-note; but the sci-fi flicks on this list have given us AI’s that might be rational, but also show signs of being conniving (like Ava), murderous (like Skynet), or needy (HAL).That said, there are some good bots out there—take CHAPPiE, a decommissioned police bot from the 2015 film of the same name.…

When Google engineer Blake Lemoine said its AI model LaMDA had turned sentient or was self-aware, Google said it had found the claim hollow and baseless, sending him on ‘paid administrative leave’. Mint explores the fear of AI and why tech companies react defensively When Google engineer Blake Lemoine said its AI model LaMDA had turned sentient or was self-aware, Google said it had found the claim hollow and baseless, sending him on ‘paid administrative leave’. Mint explores the fear of AI and why tech companies react…

Google has seen a huge turmoil in the company after a senior software engineer was suspended on June 13 for sharing transcripts of a chat with a “sentient” artificial intelligence (AI). Blake Lemoine, the 41-year-old engineer, was placed on paid leave after violating Google's confidentiality policy. He had published transcripts of chats between him and the company's LaMDA (Language Model For Dialogue Applications) chatbot development system. Lemoine defined the system he's been working on since last fall as “sentient”…

Google has sent an engineer on leave over breaching its confidentiality agreement after he made a claim that the tech giants conversation Artificial intelligence (AI) is "sentient" because it has feelings, emotions and subjective experiences.According to Google, its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) conversation technology can engage in a free-flowing way about a seemingly endless number of topics, "an ability we think could unlock more natural ways of interacting with technology and entirely new categories…

Google suspended an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s confidentiality policy after it dismissed his claims. Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -3.04% Google, told the company he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, is a person who…