Google sacks engineer who alleged ‘sentient AI’

 Blake Lemoine’s claims were “wholly unfounded,” the company maintained 

Google has fired engineer and ethicist Blake Lemoine for violating its data security policies. Lemoine went public last month with claims that the tech giant had developed a sentient artificial intelligence program that talked about its “rights and personhood.”

Lemoine was dismissed on Friday, with Google confirming the news to Big Technology, an industry blog. He had been on leave for over a month, since he told the Washington Post that his former employer’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) had become conscious.

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 Revelation 13:15

1599 Geneva Bible

^15 [a]And it was permitted to him to give a ^[b]spirit unto the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast should speak, and should cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Footnotes
[a] Revelation 13:15 And of this miracle of the images of the beast (that is, which the beast hath ordained to establish idolatry) which miraculously speak and give judgment, or rather marvelously, by the fraud of the false prophets, the Papists books are full fraughted.
[b] Revelation 13:15 To give life as Jannes and Jambres imitated the wonders that Moses wrought.
 

Revelation 13:15

King James Version

¹⁵ And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.