San Francisco — Google was one of the engineers on Friday, more than a month after expressing ethical concerns about how the company is testing artificial intelligence chatbots that it believes have achieved awareness. I fired a Blake Lemoine.
Google spokesman Chris Pappas and Lemoine, a senior software engineer at the Responsible AI organization, chose to “permanently violate explicit employment and data security policies, including the need to protect product information.” “.
The company, which denies the chatbot’s language model is wise, put Lemoine on paid leave in June. Lemoine confirmed his dismissal in a text message on Friday and said he was meeting with a lawyer to consider his options.The firing was the first Report by Newsletter Big Technology..
Lemoine said last month when he made a fuss Said A Washington post that believed in Google’s language model for interactive applications (LaMDA) was concerned about AI approaching dystopian science fiction movies and whether computer programs could really have a soul. Unleashed a noisy debate. His suspension also led to conspiracy theories as to whether it was part of Google’s cover-up.
For Google, it was another in a series of homemade debates about the ethics and role of AI, the technology field that the company bet on in the future.
Lemoine’s claim that LaMDA is perceptive has been criticized by the company and many other AI experts, and these types of chatbots (commonly used for customer service, text-based with another person). (Software that simulates conversations) is not well advanced. Please be aware.
“If employees share concerns about our work, like Blake, we review them extensively,” Papas said. “We discovered Blake’s claim that LaMDA was completely unfounded and worked with him for months to clarify it.”
In addition to expressing concern to the media, Lemoine said in June he handed documents to an unidentified US Senator, alleging that Google and its technology provided evidence of involvement in religious discrimination.
