Google has suspended a senior software engineer who claimed that the artificial intelligence developed by the company has shown signs of sensitivity.
The engineer stated that the AI could easily pass the Turing test.
Blake Lemoine, an engineer who has been with Alphabet Inc. for about seven years, told The Washington Post that Google’s language model for dialogue applications, or LaMDA, was able to engage in a complex conversation about emotions and other issues with a lot of freedom.
During the conversation about religion, consciousness, and the laws of robotics, AI described herself as a “person” rather than a technology and asked the company to treat her as an employee, rather than an employee. property, as he wanted to serve the human race, according to Lemoine. .
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The engineer was placed on administrative leave on June 6 for failing to consult with the elderly before making his findings public, which violated the company’s privacy policies.
Google spokesman Brian Gabriel told the Post: “Our team – including ethics and technology – has reviewed Blake’s concerns in accordance with our AI principles and informed him that the evidence does not support his claims.
“He was told there was no evidence that LaMDA was sensitive (and much evidence against it) … These systems mimic the types of exchanges found in millions of sentences and can speak to any fantastic subject.”