A Google engineer claimed the company's AI chatbot was sentient. Then Google suspended him.

Blake Lemoine said that he was placed on paid leave on Monday after the company slammed his claim that its AI had gained sentience.
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The Google engineer who was fired after claiming the company's chatbot is sentient says AI is the 'most powerful' tech invented 'since the atomic bomb'

Blake Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed that the company's LaMDA chatbot had gained sentience.
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Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine, who says AI technology became sentient

'What sort of things are you afraid of?' he asked the technology, in a Google Doc shared with Google's top executives. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google has fired the engineer who claimed an unreleased ...
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Video Highlights: Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim

Google Engineer Blake Lemoine (who worked for the company’s Responsible AI unit) joins Emily Chang of Bloomberg Technology in the video below to talk about some of the experiments he conducted that ...