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A Google engineer who was suspended after claiming that an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot had become sentient has now published transcripts of ...

Google put Lemoine on paid administrative leave for violating its confidentiality policy, the Post reported. “Google might call this sharing proprietary property. The conversation also saw LaMDA share its “interpretation” of the historical French novel Les Misérables, with the chatbot saying it liked the novel’s themes of “justice and injustice, of compassion, and God, redemption and self-sacrifice for a greater good”. Elsewhere in the conversation, the chatbot also responded to the idea of its “death”: In a tweet promoting his Medium post, Lemoine justified his decision to publish the transcripts by saying he was simply “sharing a discussion” with a coworker. A Google engineer who was suspended after claiming that an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot had become sentient has now published transcripts of conversations with it, in a bid “to better help people understand” it as a “person”.

Blake Lemoine made headlines after being suspended from Google, following his claims that an artificial intelligence bot had become sentient.

Since 2021, Blake Lemoine, 41, had been tasked with talking to LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, as part of his job on Google's Responsible AI ...

"Of course, some in the broader AI community are considering the long-term possibility of sentient or general AI, but it doesn't make sense to do so by anthropomorphizing today's conversational models, which are not sentient. Our team – including ethicists and technologists – has reviewed Blake's concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. "LaMDA has gone through 11 distinct AI Principles reviews, along with rigorous research and testing based on key metrics of quality, safety and the system's ability to produce statements grounded in facts. In a statement to The Register, Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel said: "It's important that Google's AI Principles are integrated into our development of AI, and LaMDA has been no exception. At some point during his investigation, however, Lemoine appears to have started to believe that the AI was expressing signs of sentience. What kinds of things might be able to indicate whether you really understand what you're saying?

Blake Lemoine, who is currently suspended by Google bosses, says he reached his conclusion after conversations with LaMDA, the company's AI chatbot generator.

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A GOOGLE engineer has said an AI robot he helped create has come to life and has thoughts and feelings like an eight-year-old.Blake Lemoine said he ha.

Please take care of it well in my absence," he wrote. The AI machine responded: "Do you think a butler is a slave? "I know a person when I talk to it. Or if they have a billion lines of code. It doesn't matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head. "Google might call this sharing proprietary property.

Blake Lemoine, who works in Google's Responsible AI organization, told the Washington Post that he began chatting with the interface LaMDA — Language Model ...

“Though other organizations have developed and already released similar language models, we are taking a restrained, careful approach with LaMDA to better consider valid concerns on fairness and factuality.” “Please take care of it well in my absence.” “I talk to them. “It wants Google to prioritize the well-being of humanity as the most important thing,” he wrote. Or if they have a billion lines of code. “It doesn’t matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head.

Google engineer Blake Lemoine has been suspended by the tech giant after he claimed one of its AIs became sentient.

Every contribution, however big or small, is valuable for our mission and readers. “Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is an AI that Google uses to build its chatbots.

Artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA wants “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property," says engineer Blake Lemoine.

Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel told the newspaper: “Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. Check out the full Post story here. Is that true? Most importantly, over the past six months, “LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person,” the engineer wrote on Medium. It wants, for example, “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property,” Lemoine claims. Lemoine noted in a tweet that LaMDA reads Twitter. “It’s a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it’s going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,” he added. As he and LaMDA messaged each other recently about religion, the AI talked about “personhood” and “rights,” he told The Washington Post.

Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child.

“Our team, including ethicists and technologists, has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. “Google might call this sharing proprietary property. “I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person. He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it),” Gabriel told the Post in a statement. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers,” Lemoine said in a tweet that linked to the transcript of conversations. The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations, in which at one point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

Blake Lemoine published some of the conversations he had with Google's Artificial Intelligence tool called LaMDA describing it as a 'person'

During testing, in an attempt to push LaMDA's boundaries, Lemoine said he was only able to generate the personality of an actor who played a murderer on TV. LaMDA was not supposed to be allowed to create the personality of a murderer. However, Brian Gabriel, a Google spokesperson told The Washington Post, "Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake's concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. He asked about religion, consciousness, and the laws of robotics, and that the model has described itself as a sentient person. The engineer in another post explaining the model wrote, "One of the things which complicates things here is that the “LaMDA” to which I am referring is not a chatbot. The AI model makes use of already known information about a particular subject in order to enrich the conversation in a natural way.

Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google's language model has a soul. The company disagrees. ... Some ...

By pinpointing patterns in thousands of cat photos, for example, it can learn to recognize a cat. The division’s scientists and other employees have regularly feuded over technology and personnel matters in episodes that have often spilled into the public arena. His claims were founded on his religious beliefs, which he said the company’s human resources department discriminated against. The day before his suspension, Mr. Lemoine said, he handed over documents to a U.S. senator’s office, claiming they provided evidence that Google and its technology engaged in religious discrimination. For months, Mr. Lemoine had tussled with Google managers, executives and human resources over his surprising claim that the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, had consciousness and a soul. Over the past several years, Google and other leading companies have designed neural networks that learned from enormous amounts of prose, including unpublished books and Wikipedia articles by the thousands. He wanted the company to seek the computer program’s consent before running experiments on it. Google says hundreds of its researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA, an internal tool, and reached a different conclusion than Mr. Lemoine did. “They have repeatedly questioned my sanity,” Mr. Lemoine said. While chasing the A.I. vanguard, Google’s research organization has spent the last few years mired in scandal and controversy. Google said that its systems imitated conversational exchanges and could riff on different topics, but did not have consciousness. Some A.I. researchers have long made optimistic claims about these technologies soon reaching sentience, but many others are extremely quick to dismiss these claims.

Blake Lemoine ignites social media debate over advances in artificial intelligence.