#Google Sentient AI

Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who claimed the company's LaMDA AI is sentient, has now been fired from the company after being initially suspended for over a month. The exclusive report comes from Alex Kantrowitz of Big Technology newsletter, stating that Lemoine had in fact shared his dismissal from Google on a Big Technology podcast that will air shortly. Lemoine claims that the LaMDA AI is sentient with it going as far as to make statements about having a sense of self-awareness and the ability to feel emotions. The newsletter also revealed that Google had confirmed the firing of Blake Lemoine by sharing the following statement: "As we share in our AI Principles, we take the development of AI very seriously and remain committed to responsible innovation. We found Blake’s claims that LaMDA is sentient to be wholly unfounded and worked to clarify that with him for many months. There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning "this site may harm your computer" on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked. Connie took a screenshot from her browser of what turned out to be human error from some engineers over at Google: The incident happened sometime between 6:30 a.m. Read more in our articles including "Google fires engineer who claimed its AI was sentient" and "The day Google broke the Web".