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Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient — The Verge

By TechTaffy Desk

The engineer, Blake Lemoine, works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, and was testing whether its LaMDA model generates discriminatory language or hate speech, writes Jon Porter.

Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23165535/google-suspends-ai-artificial-intelligence-engineer-sentient

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