{"id":163000,"date":"2023-04-29T05:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T10:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-fired-google-engineer-who-thought-its-ai-could-be-sentient-says-microsofts-chatbot-feels-like-watching-the-train-wreck-happen-in-real-time"},"modified":"2023-04-29T05:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T10:23:14","slug":"the-fired-google-engineer-who-thought-its-ai-could-be-sentient-says-microsofts-chatbot-feels-like-watching-the-train-wreck-happen-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-fired-google-engineer-who-thought-its-ai-could-be-sentient-says-microsofts-chatbot-feels-like-watching-the-train-wreck-happen-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"The fired Google engineer who thought its AI could be sentient says Microsoft\u2019s chatbot feels like \u2018watching the train wreck happen in real time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Google<\/a> employee who claimed last June his company\u2019s A.I. model could already be sentient<\/a>, and was later fired by the company, is still worried about the dangers of new A.I.-powered chatbots, even if he hasn\u2019t tested them himself yet.<\/p>\n

Blake Lemoine was let go from Google last summer for violating the company\u2019s confidentiality policy after he published transcripts of several conversations he had with LaMDA, the company\u2019s large language model he helped create that forms the artificial intelligence backbone of Google\u2019s upcoming search engine assistant<\/a>, the chatbot Bard.<\/p>\n

Lemoine told the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> <\/em>at the time that LaMDA resembled \u201ca 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know <\/strong>physics\u201d and said he believed the technology was sentient, while urging Google to take care of it as it would a \u201csweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Google employee who claimed last June his company\u2019s A.I. model could already be sentient, and was later fired by the company, is still worried about the dangers of new A.I.-powered chatbots, even if he hasn\u2019t tested them himself yet. Blake Lemoine was let go from Google last summer for violating the company\u2019s confidentiality policy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,31,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163000","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=163000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}