{"id":140594,"date":"2022-06-14T15:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-put-on-leave-after-saying-ai-chatbot-has-become-sentient"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:22:48","slug":"google-engineer-put-on-leave-after-saying-ai-chatbot-has-become-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-put-on-leave-after-saying-ai-chatbot-has-become-sentient","title":{"rendered":"Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ARJ8cAGm6JE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lemoine, an engineer for Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.google\/responsibilities\/responsible-ai-practices\/#:~:text=The%20development%20of%20AI%20is, and%20security%20into%20these%20systems.\">responsible AI organization<\/a>, described the system he has been working on since last fall as sentient, with a perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings that was equivalent to a human child.<\/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 seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics,\u201d Lemoine, 41, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/06\/11\/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine\/\">told the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said LaMDA engaged him in conversations about rights and personhood, and Lemoine shared his findings with company executives in April in a GoogleDoc entitled \u201cIs LaMDA sentient?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemoine, an engineer for Google\u2019s responsible AI organization, described the system he has been working on since last fall as sentient, with a perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings that was equivalent to a human child. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140594","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}