Google Disagrees With Engineer Who Claimed LaMDA AI Chatbot Had Become Sentient, Sent Him on Leave
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”…