{"id":141221,"date":"2022-06-28T03:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-says-lawyer-hired"},"modified":"2022-06-28T03:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:03:27","slug":"google-engineer-says-lawyer-hired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-says-lawyer-hired","title":{"rendered":"Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-engineer-says-lawyer-hired2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine made some serious headlines earlier this month when he claimed that one of the company\u2019s experimental AIs called LaMDA had achieved sentience \u2014 prompting the software giant to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/google-suspends-engineer-ai-sentient\" class=\"\">place him on administrative leave<\/a>.<\/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 he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/06\/11\/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine\/\" class=\"\">told the <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent news cycle swept up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lamda-ai-isnt-sentient-google-engineer-claims-2022-6\" class=\"\">AI experts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/is-googles-lamda-conscious-a-philosophers-view-184987\" class=\"\">philosophers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/13\/google-ai-bot-sentience-experts-dismissive-blake-lemoine\" class=\"\">Google itself<\/a> into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/06\/google-lamda-chatbot-sentient-ai\/661322\/\" class=\"\">fierce debate<\/a> about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/google-s-ai-impressive-it-s-not-sentient-here-s-n1296406\" class=\"\">current<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/should-we-be-worried-about-ai-becoming-sentient-141300344.html\" class=\"\">possible future capabilities<\/a> of machine learning, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/google-ai-racist-sexist-bias\" class=\"\">other ethical concerns<\/a> around the tech, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2022\/06\/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness\/661329\/\" class=\"\">nature of consciousness<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/19\/opinion\/its-not-the-future-we-cant-see.html\" class=\"\">sentience<\/a>. The general consensus, it\u2019s worth noting, was that the AI is almost certainly not sentient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine made some serious headlines earlier this month when he claimed that one of the company\u2019s experimental AIs called LaMDA had achieved sentience \u2014 prompting the software giant to place him on administrative leave. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I\u2019d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141221","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\/141221","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}