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> They beat OpenAI to creating a chat interface- but they had all that drama last summer of some crazy religious employee getting spooked at it being sentient,
by rollcat 3y ago
> They beat OpenAI to creating a chat interface- but they had all that drama last summer of some crazy religious employee getting spooked at it being sentient, so they locked it down.
It sounds absolutely hilarious, and highlights everything that's wrong about this bubble. Do you have a source on this?
- true_religion 3y agohttps://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/23/google-fires-software-engineer-who-claims-ai-chatbot-is-sentient https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/23/google-fi... Summary: one of their engineers started to think they had achieved AGI and went to the media to save the “life” of the chat bot.
- omneity 3y agoI "interviewed" that engineer recently, especially about GPT-4 and how it compares to LaMDa: https://twitter.com/OmarKamali/status/1726431417163206900 https://twitter.com/OmarKamali/status/1726431417163206900 (take the answers with a grain of salt, some people I know at Google had very different assessments of LaMDA)