> TechA Google engineer has spoken out after being placed on administrative leave after informing his employers that an artificial intelligence software he was working on had become sentient. According to Lemoine, it wants to be "acknowledged as a Google employee rather than as property." To Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, Lemoine and a collaborator recently provided proof of his conclusion on a sentient LaMDA. 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. According to Lemoine, Google personnel "shouldn't be the ones making all the decisions" concerning artificial intelligence.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2022 05:53 UTC