“It is unfortunate that, despite a long engagement on this issue, Blake has chosen to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. email to Reuters.
Last year, Google said that LaMDA – Language Model for Dialog Applications – was based on the company’s research showing that language models based on the Transformer neural network architecture and trained on dialog could learn to speak from practically anything.
Google and many renowned scientists were quick to dismiss the Lemoine’s opinions for considering them wrong, claiming that LaMDA is simply a complex algorithm designed to generate convincing human language.
Lemoine’s firing was first reported by Big Technology, a technology and society newsletter.
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