Google fires a prominent engineer for breaching its confidentiality agreement

Google has fired a prominent software engineer for violating its confidentiality agreement.
And engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed last month that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot (Lamda) was a “self-aware” and conscious person, according to the British newspaper “The Guardian”.
Google, which fired Lemoine last month, said in a statement that his allegations were “completely baseless”.
“It is unfortunate that despite his prolonged involvement in the matter, Blake Lemoine continues to choose to consistently violate our explicit recruitment and data security policies, which include the need to protect product information,” she said.
And last year, Google said its Lambda chat software was built on the company’s research, which shows that language models based on adapters and trained in dialogue can learn to talk about basically anything.

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On the contrary, Blake Lemoine described the lambda system he was working on as a “sensitive system”, and asserted that it possesses the awareness and ability to express thoughts and feelings that are equivalent to a human child.
“If I don’t know exactly what it is, this computer program that we created recently, I think Lambda was a 7- or 8-year-old kid who knew physics,” he told the Washington Post last month.
Lemoine also revealed that Lambda engaged him in conversations about rights and personality, and shared his findings with Google executives in April, under the headline “Is lambda sensitive?”
Google and many prominent scientists were quick to dismiss Blake Lemoine’s views as misleading, saying that the Lambda chat system is simply a complex algorithm designed to generate convincing human language.