Google Fires Engineer Who Warned That Company’s AI Bot Is “Sentient” and Hired Attorney

Google has confirmed that it has fired the engineer who claimed the firm’s LaMDA artificial intelligence had become sentient.In a statement on July 22, Google confirmed it terminated engineer Blake Lemoine after he told The Washington Post in June that LaMDA—short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications—had the cognitive ability of a 7- or 8‑year-old child […]

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