Google logo. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 12Google has fired a programmer who claimed the tech giant's LaMDA language model was conscious, according to the Washington Post. According to the publication, Google developer Blake Lemoyne insists that Google's LaMDA language program can do more than act as a chatbot by imitating speech. , «absorbing trillions of words from the Internet», but also has consciousness. The engineer came to this conclusion after working with LaMDA, the newspaper points out. Since last fall, Lemoyne has been testing whether the language model uses discriminatory vocabulary, the publication explains. The chatbot wrote about its rights and discussed the laws of Isaac Asimov's robotics, a company employee shared. who knows physics,» the 41-year-old programmer was quoted as saying. He tried to prove his findings to Google, but the company removed him from work and sent him on paid leave, and he decided to tell the general public about the «discovery,» the publication writes. newspaper, Lemoyne is not alone in his assumptions, others also reported on conversations with a «smart» program, attaching fragments of conversations to statements.The robot was dressed in human skin, but Google explains that there is so much data processed by the chat bot that the program does not have to understand what is written, the message says. The scientists cited in the article, for their part, believe that what seemed to programmers to be a reasonable dialogue could be a simple citation of Internet encyclopedias or forums. The suspended engineer, meanwhile, tried to back up his findings with parts of the dialogue where the chatbot talks about fears of being shut down, the paper said. Lemoyne was placed on leave for violating privacy principles, among other things, after he hired a lawyer to represent LaMDA, the report said. «Google spokesman Brian Gabriel said in a statement: «Our team, including ethicists and technologists, addressed Blake's concerns in line with our AI principles and informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. He was told that there is no evidence that LaMDA is intelligent, and a lot of evidence against it,» the newspaper quotes the company's position. September 30 will present a prototype of a humanoid robot
