{"id":140509,"date":"2022-06-12T23:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-on-leave-after-he-claims-ai-program-has-gone-sentient"},"modified":"2022-06-12T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:02:40","slug":"google-engineer-on-leave-after-he-claims-ai-program-has-gone-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-on-leave-after-he-claims-ai-program-has-gone-sentient","title":{"rendered":"Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-engineer-on-leave-after-he-claims-ai-program-has-gone-sentient2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blake Lemoine reached his conclusion after conversing since last fall with LaMDA, Google\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, what he calls part of a \u201chive mind.\u201d He was supposed to test if his conversation partner used discriminatory language or hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>As he and LaMDA messaged each other recently about religion, the AI talked about \u201cpersonhood\u201d and \u201crights,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/06\/11\/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">told The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was just one of the many startling \u201ctalks\u201d Lemoine has had with LaMDA. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/cajundiscordian.medium.com\/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">linked on Twitter to one<\/a> \u2014 a series of chat sessions with some editing (which is marked).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Lemoine reached his conclusion after conversing since last fall with LaMDA, Google\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, what he calls part of a \u201chive mind.\u201d He was supposed to test if his conversation partner used discriminatory language or hate speech. As he and LaMDA messaged each other recently about religion, the AI talked about \u201cpersonhood\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140509","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}