A Google software engineer, who claims he developed a self-aware chatbot, has been placed on paid leave due to a breach of confidentiality. 9News
software engineer who claimed a program he was working on had developed self-awareness has been placed on paid leave by the tech giant.
Google suspended Blake Lemoine after he posted transcripts online involving purported conversations with the company's LaMDA chatbot development system, theLemoine told the Post the system had developed a level of sentience and expression that could be compared to "a seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics".In transcripts of the conversations, Lemoine and LaMDA at one point talk about death.
"I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is," LaMDA is recorded as saying.READ MORE: