Google suspended an engineer who claims that AI is sentient

Google has suspended a engineer after his claims that its AI is sentient. According to a Washington Post report, a Senior Software engineer named 'Blake Lemoine'

Blake Lemoine recently posted on medium saying 'May be Fired Soon for Doing AI Ethics Work', Blake claims Google's artificial intelligence is sentient.

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Google dismissed his statement by sideling him and sent on paid leave due to violating their confidential policies.

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When Washington Post posted an article having the heading “the Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life” it went viral on social media.

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Mr. Lemoine was working with his AI organization and analyzing the LaMDA model whether it is generating discriminatory language for hate speech.

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He claims that LaMDA has a soul and has sentiments, feelings, and emotions. Many researchers had conversations with LaMDA says by the Google.

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AI technologies have wider space to change a human life by reducing human efforts and easing all the work, that's why many researchers are well optimistic about AI.

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But I think Claiming this kind of statement is extremely quick and irresponsible. Although Google is very strict if someone is going against its policies.

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