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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/22\/23274958\/google-ai-engineer-blake-lemoine-chatbot-lamda-2-sentience<\/a>
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Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who publicly claimed<\/a> that the company\u2019s LaMDA conversational artificial intelligence is sentient, has been fired, according to the Big Technology newsletter<\/a>, which spoke to Lemoine. In June, Google placed Lemoine on paid administrative leave for breaching its confidentiality agreement after he contacted members of the government about his concerns and hired a lawyer to represent LaMDA.<\/p>\n

A statement emailed to The Verge <\/em>on Friday by Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel appeared to confirm the firing, saying, \u201cwe wish Blake well.\u201d The company also says: \u201cLaMDA has been through 11 distinct reviews, and we published a research paper earlier this year detailing the work that goes into its responsible development.\u201d Google maintains that it \u201cextensively\u201d reviewed Lemoine\u2019s claims and found that they were \u201cwholly unfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n

This aligns with numerous<\/a> AI experts<\/a> and ethicists, who have said that his claims were, more or less, impossible given today\u2019s technology. Lemoine claims his conversations with LaMDA\u2019s chatbot lead him to believe that it has become more than just a program and has its own thoughts and feelings, as opposed to merely producing conversation realistic enough to make it seem that way, as it is designed to do. <\/p>\n

He argues that Google\u2019s researchers should seek consent from LaMDA before running experiments on it (Lemoine himself was assigned to test whether the AI produced hate speech) and published chunks of those conversations on his Medium account as his evidence.<\/p>\n