alt Hacker NewsDo you remember that Google researcher who went insane over LaMDA? There was no marketing of any kind to cause that. This can Just Happen to some people who are confronted with things like this. They may have different breaking points, but it's a thing that occasionally happens.
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Kim_Bruning • today at 2:13 AM
That was Blake Lemoine. For the record: he doesn't appear to have been ruled insane by anyone, and he wasn't even fired over that part exactly!
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The craziest part was that Google was pretty far behind other LLMs in development. Even the initial release of Gemini was one of the worst foundation models ever open to the public. I can't imagine how anyone could have communicated to it and thought it was sentient.