Has artificial intelligence become sane? Any concerns?

Google employee Blake Lemoine has been placed on emergency leave. This happened because the engineer spoke out about the acquisition of consciousness by artificial intelligence. Google representatives have officially stated that this is impossible, and the engineer needs a rest.

 

Has artificial intelligence become intelligent?

 

It all started after engineer Blake Lemoyne decided to talk to LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). This is a language model for communicating with a person. Smart bot. The peculiarity of LaMDA is that it draws information from a worldwide database.

When talking to the AI, Blake Lemoyne switched to a religious topic. And what was his surprise when the computer program started talking about its own rights. The dialogue with the engineer was so convincing that there was a feeling about the reasonableness of LaMDA.

Naturally, the engineer shared his thoughts with his management. Instead of testing Blake's hunches, he was simply sent on vacation. They considered him crazy, who was simply tired of work. Perhaps Google management has more information that subordinates do not need to know.

Google spokesman Brian Gabriel tends to stick to the conventions. Where a machine cannot be intelligent a priori. And all films like "Terminator" or "I'm a Robot" are science fiction. It is noteworthy that Google did not develop this topic, proving to the public the impossibility of the appearance of consciousness in AI. This is exactly what worries ordinary citizens on planet Earth.