Felfüggesztették a Google mérnökét, mert megsértette az „érző” AI-val kapcsolatos titoktartási irányelveket

Google has placed one of its software engineers on paid administrative leave for violating the company’s confidentiality policies.

Since 2021, Blake Lemoine, 41, had been tasked with talking to LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, as part of his job on Google’s Responsible AI team, looking for whether the bot used discriminatory or hate speech.

LaMDA is “built by fine-tuning a family of Transzformátor-based neural language models specialized for dialog, with up to 137 billion model parameters, and teaching the models to leverage external knowledge sources,” a Google szerint.

Ezt használja a cég chatbotok felépítéséhez, és látszólag értelmes válaszokat ad vissza a több billió internetes beszélgetésből és egyéb kommunikációból származó anyagokon alapuló kérdésekre.

Úgy tűnik azonban, hogy a nyomozás során Lemoine elkezdte azt hinni, hogy a mesterséges intelligencia az érzék jeleit fejezi ki. A mérnök, akinek van tapasztalatairól írt, azt mondja, többször is megpróbálta fokozni aggodalmát, de elutasították azzal az indokkal, hogy nem volt bizonyítéka.

So he sought “outside consultation” on the abilities of LaMDA, which is what attracted Google’s attention, as described in a Medium post titled “May be Fired Soon for Doing AI Ethics Work”.

A történetet felvette The Washington Post, Akkor The Wall Street Journal, a Financial Times, és még sok más.

Having been placed on administrative leave, which he described as what Google does “in anticipation of firing someone,” Lemoine further published what he claimed was a conversation with LaMDA.

Az alábbiakban néhány kivonat található:

The full “interview” can be read itt. While it is startling that an AI can do this, Google is wary of the “anthropomorphizing” that Lemoine mentions – that is, attributing human characteristics or behavior to animals or objects.

A A regisztráció, Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel said: “It’s important that Google’s AI Principles are integrated into our development of AI, and LaMDA has been no exception. Though other organizations have developed and already released similar language models, we are taking a restrained, careful approach with LaMDA to better consider valid concerns on fairness and factuality.

“LaMDA has gone through 11 distinct Az AI elvek áttekintése, along with rigorous research and testing based on key metrics of quality, safety and the system’s ability to produce statements grounded in facts. A kutatási papír Az év elején kiadott részletezi a LaMDA felelős fejlesztésével kapcsolatos munkát.

“Of course, some in the broader AI community are considering the long-term possibility of sentient or general AI, but it doesn’t make sense to do so by anthropomorphizing today’s conversational models, which are not sentient. These systems imitate the types of exchanges found in millions of sentences, and can riff on any fantastical topic – if you ask what it’s like to be an ice cream dinosaur, they can generate text about melting and roaring and so on.

“LaMDA tends to follow along with prompts and leading questions, going along with the pattern set by the user. Our team – including ethicists and technologists – has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims.

“Hundreds of researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA and we are not aware of anyone else making the wide-ranging assertions, or anthropomorphizing LaMDA, the way Blake has.”

Gary Marcus New York-i professzor foglalta össze the whole saga as “nonsense on stilts.” ®