[Martin Shkreli has so many ghost / fake accounts, this is the revised graphic.]
It seems Google has placed one of its software engineers in San Fran… on leave. It seems he thinks that an artificial intelligence suite he was working on… became self-aware. Sentient. A silicon life form, if you will. And so, of course, Google will fire him, for saying so:
…A senior software engineer at Google was suspended on Monday (June 13) after sharing transcripts of a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) that he claimed to be “sentient”, according to media reports. The engineer, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine, was put on paid leave for breaching Google’s confidentiality policy.
When Lemoine and a colleague emailed a report on LaMDA’s supposed sentience to 200 Google employees, company executives dismissed the claims.
“Our team – including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims,” Brian Gabriel, a spokesperson for Google, told the Washington Post….
I do not mean to make fun of him (and the Google spokesperson seems… utterly humorless). . . yet I highly doubt that a Cyberdyne Systems moment looms for us all. It is just a nice echo of art, being imitated (rather poorly) by… life. Onward, into a sticky hot sunny afternoon! Be excellent to one another….
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