Google Says It Has Fired Software Engineer Who Claimed Its AI Chatbot Is Sentient

Google Says It Has Fired Software Engineer Who Claimed Its AI Chatbot Is Sentient

Alphabet’s Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person. Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his claims on LaMDA…