Search marketers may be the least surprised at the news that 41-year-old Google software engineer Blake Lemoine says he helped to create a machine or software program that has achieved sentience -- defined as the ability to perceive or feel things.
People have been eager to attribute human traits to machines, but Google said he is mistaken and placed him on paid leave after he went public with his assertion.
Lemoine worked with Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), a system for generating chatbots based on advanced large language models that can mimic speech by ingesting trillions of words from across the internet. AI models learn from the data it feeds on.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, previewed LaMDA at the company’s I/O event in 2021. The language model is designed to carry on an open-ended conversation with a human user without repeating information. It can understand the relationship between words and sentences, and predict what comes next.
Google, at the time, called it a “breakthrough conversation technology.” The technology builds on earlier Google research, published in 2020, that showed “Transformer-based language models trained on dialogue could learn to talk about virtually anything.”
Lemoine has been testing Google's AI tool LaMDA. Now, following hours of conversations with the AI bot, he believes that LaMDA is communicating what “it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person.”
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