Google fires engineer who claimed LaMDA to be sentimental
Alphabet Inc’s Google has dismissed senior software engineer Blake Lemoine who claimed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA - Language Model for Dialogue Applications - was a self-aware person.
Google and many leading scientists dismissed Lemoine’s views as misguided, saying LaMDA is simply a complex algorithm designed to generate convincing human language.
Last month, Google placed Lemoine on leave and said he had violated company policies and found his claims on LaMDA to be “wholly unfounded.” The company last year also said that LaMDA was built on the company’s research showing Transformer-based language models trained on dialogue could learn to talk about essentially anything.
A Google spokesperson said, “It’s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information.”
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