Google suspends engineer after claims that AI system has become sentientA senior Google software engineer has claimed one of the company’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) programs has become sentient, complete with its own feelings and desires for mutual respect. 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. #AI #LaMDA pic.twitter.com/s8hIKEplhF — Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) June 12, 2022Still, 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 02:25 UTC