{"id":142691,"date":"2022-07-23T02:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/google-fires-engineer-who-claimed-that-companys-ai-has-become-sentient"},"modified":"2022-07-23T02:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T07:23:35","slug":"google-fires-engineer-who-claimed-that-companys-ai-has-become-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/google-fires-engineer-who-claimed-that-companys-ai-has-become-sentient","title":{"rendered":"Google fires engineer who claimed that company\u2019s AI has become sentient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-fires-engineer-who-claimed-that-companys-ai-has-become-sentient.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, there were a lot of waves in the AI community when a senior Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/google-engineer-believes-companys-ai-has-become-sentient-gets-put-on-administrative-leave\/\">alleged that the company\u2019s AI has become sentient<\/a>. The claim was made about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/google-introduces-lamda-a-new-ai-based-conversation-technology\/\">Google\u2019s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA)<\/a> that can engage in a free-flowing way about a seemingly endless number of topics, an ability that unlocks more natural ways of interacting with technology.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Lemoine was put on paid administrative leave, but it appears that Google has now fired him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, there were a lot of waves in the AI community when a senior Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, alleged that the company\u2019s AI has become sentient. The claim was made about Google\u2019s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) that can engage in a free-flowing way about a seemingly endless number of topics, an ability [\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-142691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142691","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=142691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}