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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 to be "wholly unfounded."
"It's regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic,
Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and
data security policies that include the need to safeguard
product information," a Google spokesperson said in an email to
Reuters.
Last year, Google said Language Model for Dialogue Applications
- was built on the company's research showing Transformer-based
language models trained on dialogue could learn to talk about
essentially anything.
Google and many leading scientists were quick to dismiss
Lemoine's views as misguided, saying LaMDA is simply a complex
algorithm designed to generate convincing human language.
Lemoine's dismissal was first reported by Big Technology, a tech
and society newsletter.
(Reporting by Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru; Editing by William
Mallard)
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