Google Disagrees With Engineer Who Claimed LaMDA AI Chatbot Had Become Sentient, Sent Him on Leave

Google suspended senior software engineer Blake Lemoine on June 13 for sharing transcripts of a chat with a “sentient” artificial intelligence (AI) and violating Google's confidentiality policy. He had published transcripts of chats between him and the company's LaMDA (Language Model For Dialogue Applications) chatbot development system. Lemoine defined the system...