Google engineer Blake Lemoine who last June claimed that the artificial intelligence Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) reached sentient beings has been fired. Previously he was simply suspended but the dismissal was done because he violated the company's policy on data security and the guidelines that Google employees have to follow.
Lemoine also claimed that LaMDA had feelings and emotions in the two-way conversation. His claims have been refuted not only by Google but artificial intelligence researchers from outside the company.
LaMDA was developed by Google to produce artificial intelligence capable of carrying out conversations like real humans. It's especially useful for virtual assistants like Google Assistant who can now make phone calls with real people in some countries like the United States. Among the things that have been done is making restaurant reservations and ordering goods using the phone from companies that do not have e-commerce services.
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