Technical / Google engineer suspended after the claims of ai sentinent

Technical | Due to Artificial Intelligence (AI), the job of a Google engineer is in danger. According to a Bloomberg report, Google has suspended Blake Lemoine, a software engineer on its artificial intelligence development team. Blake is accused of sharing confidential information about the company's projects with third parties. Blake has made a strange and shocking claim about Google's servers after the suspension. Blake has publicly claimed that he encountered a 'sentient' AI on Google's servers. Blake also claimed that this AI chatbot can think like a human.

Blake was on paid leave last week

Earlier last week, Alphabet Inc. sent Blake on paid leave because he violated the company's confidentiality policy. Blake said in the Medium Post that he could be fired soon for working on AI ethics. In this post, he also mentioned former members of Google's AI Ethics Group such as Margaret Mitchell, who was suspended by the company like Blake for raising the issue of AI being sensitive.

'Human was Google's AI'

In an interview with the Washington Post, Blake said the Google AI he interacted with was a human. The AI ​​that has created so much controversy is called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialouge Applications). It is used to create chat bots, which adopt different personalities and interact with human users. Blake said that he tried to experiment to prove it, but the company's top executives called him very bad for taking the matter internally.

What did a Google spokesperson say?

Google spokesman Brian Gabriel said in response, "Some of the larger AI community is considering the long-term potential of sensitive or generic AI, but it makes no sense to do so by humanizing today's conversation models, which are not sensitive." Is." Gabriel adds that his team also includes ethicists and technologists. They have reviewed Blake's concerns in accordance with AI principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. When asked about Blake Lemoine's suspension, the company said it does not comment on employee matters.