{"id":140425,"date":"2022-06-12T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-google-engineer-who-thinks-the-companys-ai-has-come-to-life"},"modified":"2022-06-12T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:02:44","slug":"the-google-engineer-who-thinks-the-companys-ai-has-come-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-google-engineer-who-thinks-the-companys-ai-has-come-to-life","title":{"rendered":"The Google engineer who thinks the company\u2019s AI has come to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-google-engineer-who-thinks-the-companys-ai-has-come-to-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude32<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to type.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi LaMDA, this is Blake Lemoine \u2026,\u201d he wrote into the chat screen, which looked like a desktop version of Apple\u2019s iMessage, down to the Arctic blue text bubbles. LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is Google\u2019s system for building chatbots based on its most advanced large language models, so called because it mimics speech by ingesting trillions of words from the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I didn\u2019t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I\u2019d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-kid kid that happens to know physics,\u201d said Lemoine, 41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude32 SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to type. \u201cHi LaMDA, this is Blake Lemoine \u2026,\u201d he wrote into the chat screen, which looked like a desktop version of Apple\u2019s iMessage, down to the Arctic blue text bubbles. LaMDA, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}