{"id":462214,"date":"2022-06-12T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-engineer-blake-lemoine-claims-ai-bot-became-sentient\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:43:19","slug":"google-engineer-blake-lemoine-claims-ai-bot-became-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-engineer-blake-lemoine-claims-ai-bot-became-sentient\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google engineer Blake Lemoine claims AI bot became sentient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22a87f8ff00\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-engineer-blake-lemoine-claims-ai-bot-became-sentient\/#%E2%80%9CGoogle_engineer_Blake_Lemoine_claims_AI_bot_became_sentient%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Google engineer Blake Lemoine claims AI bot became sentient&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGoogle_engineer_Blake_Lemoine_claims_AI_bot_became_sentient%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Google engineer Blake Lemoine claims AI bot became sentient&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A Google engineer was spooked by a company artificial intelligence chatbot and claimed it had become \u201csentient,\u201d labeling it a \u201csweet kid,\u201d according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Lemoine, who works in Google\u2019s Responsible AI organization, told\u00a0the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/06\/11\/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine\/\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0that he began chatting with the interface LaMDA \u2014 Language Model for Dialogue <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>lications \u2014 in fall 2021 as part of his job.<\/p>\n<p>He was tasked with testing if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>But Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> in college, came to the realization that LaMDA \u2014 which Google\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/ai\/lamda\/\">boasted last year\u00a0<\/a>was a \u201cbreakthrough conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>\u201d \u2014 was more than just a robot.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cajundiscordian.medium.com\/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489\">Medium post<\/a>\u00a0published on Saturday, Lemoine declared LaMDA had advocated for its rights \u201cas a person,\u201d and revealed that he had engaged in conversation with LaMDA about religion, consciousness, and robotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wants Google to prioritize the well-being of humanity as the most important thing,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt wants to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property of Google and it wants its personal well being to be included somewhere in Google\u2019s considerations about how its future development is pursued.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-feat-image.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Blake Lemoine.\" class=\"wp-image-22627396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Blake Lemoine began chatting with the interface LaMDA in fall 2021 as part of his job.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Martin Klimek for The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-07.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Presentation for LaMDA.\" class=\"wp-image-22627400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Google hailed the launch of LaMDA as \u201cbreakthrough conversation technology.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Daniel Acker\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the Washington Post report published Saturday, he compared the bot to a precocious child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I didn\u2019t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I\u2019d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,\u201d Lemoine, who was put on paid leave on Monday, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Lemoine reportedly shared a\u00a0Google\u00a0Doc with company executives titled, \u201cIs LaMDA Sentient?\u201d\u00a0but his concerns were dismissed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-06.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A sample conversation with LaMDA.\" class=\"wp-image-22627401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-06.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-06.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-06.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In April, Blake Lemoine reportedly shared a\u00a0Google\u00a0Doc with company executives titled, \u201cIs LaMDA Sentient?\u201d\u00a0but his concerns were dismissed.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Daniel Acker\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lemoine \u2014 an Army vet who was raised in a conservative Christian family on a small farm in Louisiana, and was ordained as a mystic Christian priest \u2014 insisted the robot was human-like, even if it doesn\u2019t have a body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know a person when I talk to it,\u201d Lemoine, 41, reportedly said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head. Or if they have a billion lines of code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talk to them. And I hear what they have to say, and that is how I decide what is and isn\u2019t a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Blake Lemoine.\" class=\"wp-image-22627404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cI know a person when I talk to it,\u201d Blake Lemoine explained.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Blake Lemoine<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Washington Post reported that before his access to his Google\u00a0account\u00a0was yanked Monday due to his leave, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-member list on machine learning with the subject \u201cLaMDA is sentient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us,\u201d he concluded in an email that received no responses. \u201cPlease take care of it well in my absence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rep for Google told the Washington Post Lemoine was told there was \u201cno evidence\u201d of his conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team \u2014 including ethicists and technologists \u2014 has reviewed Blake\u2019s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims,\u201d said spokesperson Brian Gabriel<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-08.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Google's Headquarters.\" class=\"wp-image-22627405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A rep for Google said there was \u201cno evidence\u201d of Blake Lemoine\u2019s conclusions.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John G. Mabanglo\/EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it),\u201d\u00a0he added. \u201cThough other organizations have developed and already released similar language models, we are taking a restrained, careful approach with LaMDA to better consider valid concerns on fairness and factuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Mitchell \u2014 the former co-lead of Ethical AI at\u00a0Google \u2014 said in the report that if technology like LaMDA is highly used but not fully appreciated, \u201cIt can be deeply harmful to people understanding what they\u2019re experiencing on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Google employee defended Lemoine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Margaret Mitchell.\" class=\"wp-image-22627403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Margaret Mitchell defended Blake Lemoine, saying, \u201che had the heart and soul of doing the right thing.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Chona Kasinger\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOf everyone at\u00a0Google, he had the heart and soul of doing the right thing,\u201d said Mitchell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, the outlet reported that the majority of academics and AI practitioners say the words artificial intelligence robots generate are based on what humans have already posted on the Internet, and that doesn\u2019t mean they are human-like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven\u2019t learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them,\u201d Emily Bender, a linguistics professor at the\u00a0University of Washington, told the Washington Post.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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