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A Google employee claims LaMDA is sentient. A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, of the Responsible AI team claimed that the tech giant's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) is "sentient.

The engineer reportedly wanted to have a lawyer represent the chatbot program.

Social media went ablaze over the weekend after Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) placed a senior software engineer at its Responsible AI unit on paid leave

Blake Lemoine says LaMDA made him question his own beliefs around robotics

Google suspended the software engineer, stating that there was no evidence whatsoever to support his claims.

A Google engineer was placed on leave after speaking about how a research system he developed may have developed sentience.

Google suspends employee after claiming an AI had become sentient

Google suspended an engineer after he claimed that an artificial intelligence chatbot that the company developed had become “sentient”.

Who has since been placed on administrative leave – termed the AI chatbot LaMDA “a person”. According to a report by The Washington Post.

Blake Lemoine, a software engineer on Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) development team, has gone public with claims of encountering “sentient” AI on the firm’s servers after he was suspended for sharing confidential information about the project with third parties. The Alphabet unit placed the researcher on paid leave early last week on claims that he breached the firm’s confidentiality policy, he said in a Medium post. In the posting, he draws a connection to prior members of Go...