Engineer Blake Lemoine worked for Google’s Responsible AI organization and tested whether the LaMDA model created “biased language” or “hate speech.”
Google put one of its engineers in compulsory paid leave for allegedly violating its privacy policies after claiming that an artificial intelligence chatbot system managed to regain consciousnessreports the Washington Post.
The engineer, Blake Lemoine, worked for Google’s Responsible AI organization and tested whether the LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) model creates “biased language” or “hate speech”.
The engineer’s concerns reportedly stemmed from “convincing answers” he saw the AI ​​system produce about its rights and the ethics of robotics. In April, a document was shared with executives entitled “Is LaMDA Sentient?” containing a transcript of his conversations with AI (after being licensed, Lemoine posted the copy through his Medium account), which he says shows the LaMDA model arguing “that he is conscious because he has emotions, and subjective experience” ».
An interview LaMDA. Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers.https: //t.co/uAE454KXRB
– Blake Lemoine (@cajundiscordian) June 11, 2022
Google believes that Lemoine’s actions regarding its work at LaMDA have been violated its privacy policiesthe Washington Post and The Guardian report.
The leading American search engine giant announced LaMDA publicly on Google I / O last year, with the aim of improving artificial intelligence in conversations by making them more natural. The company already uses similar language model technology for Gmail’s Smart Compose feature or for search engine queries.
In a statement, a Google spokesman said there was no “evidence” that LaMDA was aware. “The team looked at Blake Lemoine’s concerns in accordance with our Artificial Intelligence Authority and informed him that the evidence did not support his allegations. He was told that there was no evidence to prove it “LaMDA is aware (while there is a lot of evidence to the contrary),” said Google spokesman Brian Gabriel.
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