Google engineer says company’s new AI is aware, but management has fired specialist

Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Google, told the media that the LaMDA artificial intelligence (AI) he was testing has a mind of its own. He told management about this, but was eventually suspended and sent on paid leave.

Google engineer says company’s new AI is aware, but management has fired specialist

LaMDA or Language Model for Dialogue Applications is a neural network model for applications that can communicate on any topic. It was Lemoyne’s job to extensively test the system and see if LaMDA used phrases that could be hate speech or discriminatory. However, the engineer came to the conclusion that the AI ​​was his own consciousness.

According to the specialist, the neural network spoke about its rights and considered itself as a person.