07-27-2022, 03:15 PM
As for that Google engineer who was fired, I think the execs handled that situation wrong from start to finish.
Not that I believe LaMDA is conscious because I don't. But the way they brushed aside his concerns shows how little regard the company has for its employees. Google engineers aren't exactly a dime a dozen. The questions you have to answer to get hired there are insane. You really do have to be a genius.
Before they fired him, Google said he wasn't an ethicist, implying that he wasn't qualified to comment on ethics. What? The name of his group was literally "Ethical AI Team."
Not that I believe LaMDA is conscious because I don't. But the way they brushed aside his concerns shows how little regard the company has for its employees. Google engineers aren't exactly a dime a dozen. The questions you have to answer to get hired there are insane. You really do have to be a genius.
Before they fired him, Google said he wasn't an ethicist, implying that he wasn't qualified to comment on ethics. What? The name of his group was literally "Ethical AI Team."
