Lemoine also sought outside counsel for LaMDA itself, according to The Post.
On Saturday, Lemoinepublisheda series of “interviews” that he conducted with LaMDA.
Lemoine didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment via LinkedIn.
In a statement, Google dismissed Lemoine’s assertion that LaMDA is self-aware.
About 2,700 Googlers signed anopen letter in support of Gebru, who Google says resigned her position.
Two months later, Margaret Mitchell, who co-led the Ethical AI team along with Gebru, wasfired.
Research scientist Alex Hanna and software engineer Dylan Baker subsequentlyresigned.
Economist and Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson equated LaMDA to a dog listening to a human voice through a gramophone.
