After stating that the AI chatbot known as LaMDA claims to have a soul and expresses human thoughts and feelings, Blake Lemoine, who worked for Google’s Responsible AI team, was put on administrative leave last month. Google dismissed his claims as “wholly false.”
— Blake Lemoine (@cajundiscordian) June 11, 2022 This claim of Lemoine has gotten the response of various AI scientists and ethicists that his statement was essentially impractical given current technology. Lemoine argues that after speaking with the chatbot created by LaMDA, he has come to believe that it is more than simply a program and that it has its thoughts and feelings, as opposed to just providing discourse that is plausible enough to give the impression that it does as intended. Here is Google’s whole reply to Lemoine’s assertion that the corporation failed to adequately look into his claims: Millions of people all around the world have undoubtedly been influenced by artificial intelligence’s rising impact. As a result of such accusations, consumer and company trust is eroded, which creates inefficiencies.
