Google senior software engineer suspended after telling firm AI has come to life, is like a 7 or 8 year old
Google engineer warns the firm's AI is sentient: Suspended employee claims computer programme acts 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot'.
Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA. Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient. After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him. Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online. He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality.