Blake Lemoine, a software engineer on Google’s artificial intelligence development team, was announced on allegations that he encountered “Sentient” AI on the company’s servers after being shut down for sharing sensitive information about the project with a third party.
Alphabet Inc.’s unit took paid leave earlier last week for allegedly violating the company’s confidentiality policy, saying, “It could be immediately dismissed for doing AI ethics work. Said in a medium post entitled. The post shows connections with former members of Google’s AI ethics group, such as Margaret Mitchell. Margaret Mitchell was dismissed from the company in a similar manner after expressing concern.
The Washington Post on Saturday said in an interview with Remoin that he concluded that the Google AI he interacted with was “a priest, not a scientist.” The AI in question is called LaMDA (Dialogue Applications language model) and is used to generate chatbots that interact with human users by adopting various personality metaphors. When he raised the issue internally, he was in the company.
“Some of the broader AI community are looking at the long-term potential of Sentient or general AI, but it doesn’t make sense to do so by anthropomorphizing today’s non-Sentient conversation model. “Google spokeswoman Brian Gabriel replied. “Our team (including ethicists and technicians) has reviewed Break’s concerns according to our AI principles and informed him that the evidence does not support his claim.”
The company said it did not comment on personnel issues when asked about Lemoin’s suspension.
