According to the New York Times, Google placed the engineer, Blake Lemoine, on paid leave on Monday. Lemoine claimed the discrimination was a result of Google’s denial to accept his request to require consent from The Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) program — the AI Lemoine claims is sentient — before proceeding with any experiments. Most accused Lemoine of “anthropomorphizing” the program, meaning he incorrectly attributed human characteristics or behaviour to the AI. #AI #LaMDA pic.twitter.com/s8hIKEplhF — Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) June 12, 2022Story continues below advertisementStill, in another article, Lemoine insisted the claims of anthropomorphizing were incorrect. He claimed LaMDA “may very well have a soul.”“Hopefully other people who read its words will hear the same thing I heard,” Lemoine concluded.

Source: Washington Post June 14, 2022 00:01 UTC