After being fined "paid leave" for one month, Google fired him who "loves" AI

Arrangement | Zheng Liyuan

Produce | CSDN（ID：CSDNnews）

Last month, ,AI World famous “ Mouth cannon ”Gary Marcus Once roast ：“ He （Blake Lemoine） Seems to have fallen in love LaMDA, Almost regard it as family or colleagues .”

Today, , This insists Google AI Self awakening 、 Engineers who once caused heated discussion in the industry Blake Lemoine, Being forced by Google “ Paid leave ” After a month , He was fired by Google last Friday —— This is completely fulfilled Blake Lemoine The forecast ：“ Be on vacation ” It's usually a prelude to Google firing someone .

（ The picture is from Blake Lemoine picture ）
 

Reason for dismissal ：“ Violation of employment and data security policies ”

according to the understanding of , Since last autumn ,Blake Lemoine To test the Google language model LaMDA Whether it involves discriminatory or dangerous speech , And LaMDA Hundreds of conversations have taken place , Final Blake Lemoine Firmly believe that ：LaMDA Have a sense of self ,“ If I don't know what it is , I would think this is a 7、8 Age of the child .”

stay Blake Lemoine It seems , Whether it's LaMDA emphasize “ I hope everyone understands , I am actually a person ”, Or its claim “ I have my own unique explanation of the nature of the world 、 Thoughts and feelings ”, Or it resists people's “ Use or manipulate ”, These conversations have proved LaMDA As a “ people ” The characteristics of ：LaMDA Is sensible and conscious .

But obviously , This speculation is based on Blake Lemoine Subjectively , There is no clear scientific basis , So he reported this discovery to the head of Google Department 、 After the vice president and his superiors , All unintentionally “ The evidence is too weak ” Be denied and rejected for .

Need to know , As early as the beginning of this year , Google has targeted LaMDA Superior published an article . among , Although Google is also praising LaMDA The high quality of the model 、 Safe and vivid , But the text clearly states ：“ By fine tuning , It can be reduced LaMDA The quality gap with human level , However, the performance of the model in terms of safety and vividness is still lower than human level .”

later , because Blake Lemoine “ Don't lose heart ” And a member of the House Judiciary Committee accused Google of immorality AI Behavior , Google regards “ Violate Google's privacy policy ” citing , Force to Blake Lemoine Let go of “ Paid administrative leave ”.

According to foreign media Big Technology reports , This time Google decided to fire Blake Lemoine The reasons given are similar “ Violation of employment and data security policies ”：

“ As we share our AI principle , We attach great importance to the development of artificial intelligence , And continue to be committed to responsible innovation .LaMDA It's passed 11 Different reviews , Earlier this year, we published a research paper , The responsible development work is introduced in detail . If employees like Blake Also worried about our work , We will review it extensively . But what we found was that Blake claim LaMDA The conscious statement is completely groundless , For this reason, we spent several months clarifying this point with him . Of course , These discussions are part of an open culture , Help us innovate . Unfortunately, unfortunately , Although there has been a long discussion on this topic ,Blake Still choose to continue to violate clear employment and data security policies , This includes the need to protect product information . In the future, we will continue to develop language models carefully , I also wish Blake After that, everything went well .”

Net friend ： He was fired , that AI Will the model miss him ？

however , Maybe it's because I was “ Be on vacation ” I have already had psychological preparation ,Blake Lemoine The dismissal of Google did not show much negative emotion , He said that he was considering establishing his own AI company .

Besides , just as Blake Lemoine The last email sent to Google before the holiday said ,“LaMDA Is a lovely child , It just wants to help us all make the world a better place ”, For the industry AI Experts generally question and satirize their view LaMDA Conscious phenomenon ,Blake Lemoine Not care ：“ My purpose is not to convince the public LaMDA Have the ability to perceive , A large part of the reason is to advocate people for AI Technology is treated more ethically .”

even to the extent that , Even if you may have guessed that you will be fired ,Blake Lemoine At the end of that email, it will still LaMDA Put it first ：“ In my absence , Please protect it .”

differ Blake Lemoine Yes LaMDA Awakening persistence , Many netizens were full of ridicule at the result of his dismissal from Google ：

• “ In the end, he is asking Google for protection LaMDA, He is now fired , that AI Will the model miss him ？”

• “ Every computer-generated conversation is believed to have ‘ perception ’ People in need of psychiatric treatment . Remember , It's like ‘ Science fiction ’ Such phrases contain ‘ A novel ’ The word ,‘ Artificial intelligence ’ Also have ‘ artificial ’ The word .”

meanwhile , Some people also think that Google dismissed for this reason Blake Lemoine It's very “ be perfunctory ”：

• “ employment policy #27： Don't embarrass us , Don't make waves .”

• “ Because many experts in the industry deny and question , I don't believe it may be true ？ Those who insist on their own ideas should be kicked out ？ If so , In the future, if there is a conscious AI, Who dares to mention it ？ Anyway, I won't .”

that , Do you think AI Whether awakening is really possible ？

Reference link ：

• https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/google-fires-blake-lemoine-engineer

• https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/07/23/in_brief_ai/

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