ACCORDING to a leak, Google has created an AI that has developed sentience and then they suspended the engineer that was working on it. According to the report, Lemoine had grown convinced that LaMDA was cognisant after it answered a series of questions on its rights and the ethics of robotics. After he was placed on suspension, Lemoine published a full transcript of the "conversation" on his Medium account, which according to him shows that it was in fact "alive". Google, on the other hand, says Lemoine broke its confidentiality policies after Lemoine invited a lawyer to represent the AI system and then spoke to a representative from the House Judiciary Committee about alleged unethical activities at Google. Adrian Hilton of the University of Surrey weighed in and said that Lemoine's "bold claim" on LaMDA's sentience was not backed by facts.

Source: Washington Post June 14, 2022 09:28 UTC