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Monday 13 June 2022

Google engineer discovers consciousness in AI and was suspended from work

A top software engineer at Google was fired by a US company after controversial claims about the company’s smart chat system surfaced.

Blake Lemoine claims artificial intelligence tool LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications) that which has not yet been publicly released will have spirit and conscience.

A Google software engineer who claims the program he worked on has developed self-awareness has been put on paid leave by the tech giant. This was reported by The Washington Post.

Google suspended Blake Lemoine after he posted online transcripts of alleged conversations with the company’s LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) chatbot development system.

Lemoine said the system has developed a level of sensitivity and expression that can be compared to “a seven-year-old, eight-year-old who knows physics.”...<<<Read More>>>...