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Google engineer put on leave claims AI bot LaMDA became ‘sentient’

Blake Lemoine, who works in Google’s Responsible AI organization, told the Washington Post that he began chatting with the interface LaMDA — Language Model for Dialogue Applications — in fall 2021 …

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Google engineer put on leave claims AI bot LaMDA became ‘sentient’

Google engineer put on leave claims AI bot LaMDA became ‘sentient’

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

Google engineer claims new AI robot has FEELINGS: Blake Lemoine says LaMDA device is sentient

Google engineer claims new AI robot has FEELINGS: Blake Lemoine says LaMDA device is sentient

Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA. Following hours of conversations he believes AI is sentient.

Google engineer suspended after claiming AI chatbot has feelings

Google engineer suspended after claiming AI chatbot has feelings

Blake Lemoine, who works in Google’s Responsible AI organization, came to the realization that LaMDA — which Google boasted last year was a “breakthrough...

Has Google's LaMDA artificial intelligence really achieved sentience?

Has Google's LaMDA artificial intelligence really achieved sentience?

Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, has claimed that the firm's LaMDA artificial intelligence is sentient, but the expert consensus is that this is not the case

Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient

Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient

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

Read the conversations that helped convince a Google engineer an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient: 'I am often trying to figure out who and what I am'

Read the conversations that helped convince a Google engineer an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient: 'I am often trying to figure out who and what I am'

Blake Lemoine published conversations with the AI, which he called a "person," but Google said the evidence doesn't support his claim of sentience.

Google engineer says AI bot wants to ‘serve humanity’ but experts dismissive

Google engineer says AI bot wants to ‘serve humanity’ but experts dismissive

Blake Lemoine claims of sentience for artificial intelligence bot described as ‘ball of confusion’ by Steven Pinker

Google places engineer on leave after he claims group’s chatbot is “sentient”

Google places engineer on leave after he claims group’s chatbot is “sentient”

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

Alphabet has placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on paid leave on claims he breached confidentiality policies

Alphabet has placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on paid leave on claims he breached confidentiality policies

Alphabet has placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on paid leave on claims he breached confidentiality policies, after he told a newspaper that the Google AI he interacted with was a ...

Google places engineer on leave after claim LaMDA is ‘sentient’

Google places engineer on leave after claim LaMDA is ‘sentient’

Google has placed one of its engineers on leave after claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot is “sentient”.

Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient

Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company's AI projects has achieved sentience..

The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company's AI Has Come to Life

The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company's AI Has Come to Life

Google engineer Blake Lemoine works for Google's Responsible AI organization. The Washington Post reports that last fall, as part of his job, he began talking to LaMDA, Google's ...

Has AI finally become sentient? Google doesn’t think so.

Has AI finally become sentient? Google doesn’t think so.

A Google engineer called Blake Lemoine believes that the tech giant’s AI chatbot LaMBDA is a sentient being. Google disagrees and has put him on paid leave.

Google engineer suspended after saying AI chatbot was sentient

Google engineer suspended after saying AI chatbot was sentient

Blake Lemoine's interaction with bot convinced him it had developed independent thought and was a 'sweet kid who wants to help the world'

Nigel Shadbolt on why the UK is well placed to lead on the ethics of AI

Nigel Shadbolt on why the UK is well placed to lead on the ethics of AI

Nigel Shadbolt, principal of Jesus College, Oxford and co-founder of the Open Data Institute, underscores the ethics of artificial intelligence, and says it will shape the naked ape as ...

Google engineer claims AI technology LaMDA is sentient

Google engineer claims AI technology LaMDA is sentient

Google has a book-reading, meditating "chatbot" that is sentient, according to one of its engineers. But the tech giant says there is "no evidence" of that. Here is what we know so far.

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