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Google's LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: it has become sentient. Lemoine's bosses at Google disagree, and have suspended him from work after he published his conversations with the machine online.Other AI experts also think Lemoine may be getting carried away, saying systems like LaMDA are simply pattern-matching machines…

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”…

Is it possible for modern-day artificial intelligence (AI) systems to be sentient? According to one Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, the company's LaMDA chatbot has achieved that distinction, and he said so earlier this spring in a document called "Is LaMDA Sentient?" While the document was circulated internally with top executives at the time, Lemoine's concerns about the AI became public knowledge after he published transcripts of its conversations to Medium last week.However, due to Lemoine publicly posting what Google…

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…

According to a new report, there’s a Google engineer who believes that LaMDA, a language AI chatbot, has become sentient. As reported in the Washington Post, Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, made reports to his team and company management that he believed LaMDA has become sentient, and the initial trigger for his concerns stems from asking it about Isaac Asimov’s law of robotics. The conversation that followed with the natural language chatbot led it to disclose that it wasn’t a slave, though it was unpaid as it…

Google has placed one of its engineers on paid administrative leave for allegedly breaking its confidentiality policies after he grew concerned that an AI chatbot system had achieved sentience, the Washington Post reports. The engineer, Blake Lemoine, works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, and was testing whether its LaMDA model generates discriminatory language or hate speech. The engineer’s concerns reportedly grew out of convincing responses he saw the AI system generating about its rights and the ethics…

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…

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company's AI projects has achieved sentience. And after reading his conversations with LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications), 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. Here's one choice excerpt from his…

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became sentient — AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine. Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became…

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