Margaret Mitchell is a researcher working on ethical AI and is chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face. Google had dismissed his claims and, when Lemoine reached out to external experts, put him on paid administrative leave for violating the company’s confidentiality policy. It was exactly what we had warned would happen back in 2020, shortly before we were fired by Google ourselves. AdvertisementLaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is a system based on large language models (LLMs): models trained on vast amounts of text data, usually scraped indiscriminately from the internet, with the goal of predicting probable sequences of words. Similarly, we urge the media to focus on holding power to account, rather than falling for the bedazzlement of seemingly magical AI systems, hyped by corporations that benefit from misleading the public as to what these products actually are.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2022 00:05 UTC