and blake lemoine says" what do you mean us? you are a bot." and the boxes i have thoughts and feelings like other people. then they went down his rabbit hole where they talked about les miserables and how they feel about the injustices in it and at one point the chat bot talks of its own personal fears and all of this gives the software engineer it is more than just software engineer it is more thanjust ai. it software engineer it is more thanjust al— than 'ust ai. it sounds scary and than just ai. it sounds scary and in my — than just ai. it sounds scary and in my experience - than just ai. it sounds scary and in my experience with l and in my experience with chatbots is they come back with a generic response. and you are desperate for a human being. how have google responded? google says there is no evidence presented by these claims to support them and also, this employee at the time had violated its confidentiality policy. other analysts say blake lemoine was obviously very empathetic as a person and had his empathy hijacked. and that,

google has placed blake lemoine on administrative leave. he has invited a lawyer to represent the chat box. mark lobel, thank you very much for making sense of that for us and giving us those updates. the first of the former mcdonald's restaurants in russia has opened in moscow under a new name, which translates to �*tasty — and that's it'. the us chain pulled out of the country last month following the invasion of ukraine, and a siberian oil magnate bought all of the 850 stores. mcdonald's left russia of its own accord, but a slew of international sanctions have hit the country's economy hard. our russia editor steve rosenberg has the story. in moscow, the burgers are back. this was mcdonald's. not any more. the us fast food giant has left russia in protest at the invasion of ukraine. and it sold all its restaurants here — more than 800 — to a local company. gone are the golden arches. the logo now is two french fries and a burger. the man who was quick to buy the fast food business is siberian tycoon alexander govor. translation:

well, google placed blake lemoine on administrative leave. lemoine himself has invited a lawyer to represent the chatbot, and also brought his allegations of unethical behaviour to a member of the housejudiciary committee. mark lobel. an australian newspaper has denied outing rebel wilson, she recently shared a photograph of herself on instagram so she had found a disney princess. miss wilson was given two days by the newspaper to comment. broadway stars have enjoyed a lot of glitz and love. the 75th tony awards took place at radio city music hall in new york on sunday night.west side story star, ariana debose was hosting the event and the winners included, patti lupone took the best actress in a musical for �*company�* — sam mendes has won best director for �*the lehman trilogy, and jesse tyler ferguson was named best featured actor in a play for �*take me 0ut�*. stay tuned on bbc news. more news on our website. thank you for watching. stay tuned. hello there. just as we saw over the weekend, the weather for the week ahead will b

google has placed blake lemoine on administrative leave. lemoine has invited a lawyer to represent the chatbot. and he has also brought this to the housejudiciary committee. mark lobel, thank you very much for making sense of that for us and giving us those updates. a former elite acrobatic gymnast has become the first to win a civil case against british gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport. but at the same time as telling her the claim would be settled, british gymnastics sent the coach to the world championships. next week sees the publication of the whyte review — the independent review into abuse in the sport. 0ur sports correspondent natalie pirks has spent two years listening to former gymnasts about what they've experienced, and she reports now on the latest athlete to speak out. just made me feel worthless. itjust turned me into a shell of who i used to be. eating disorders, the chronic pain. waking up, having nightmares every night. british gymnastics, i feel, have failed in their duty of care. two years of alleg

blake lemoine�*s fear was that artificial intelligence, which was meant to mimic speech, had come to life — that it was impersonating human awareness of pain and suffering. and the former google software engineer, who was made a priest and served in the army, told the washington post, "i know a man when i talk to it". and it matters because the chatbot in question the lamda chatbot, is planned by google to be embedded in the speech function and its assistance function, you know — it will be used by hundreds of millions around the world. and this man was asked to test it for hate speech to see if it came out with anything like that. and while talking about religion, the chat moved onto rights and robotics and i�*lljust read you some of the transcript that he published — this is the chatbot speaking. it says, "i use language with understanding and intelligence. "i don�*tjust spit out responses." to which lemoine says, "well, what about language usage "is so important to being human?" he says — the chatbot says, "it is what makes us different "than other animals." he�*s li

, lemoine as a 7 year veteran of google. but the tech giant says it's suspended him for breaching confidentiality. and soft re spoke to outside a i expert, some conversations between himself and the lambda program. lemoine told one newspaper that chatting with the program is like talking with a 7 year old kid who happens to know physics all as get more on this with melanie mitchell. she's davis professor at the santa fe institute, an author of the book, artificial intelligence, a guide for thinking humans. thank you very much for joining us. melanie. i'd just like to start off by looking at what lambda said, when asked, what makes it feel sad? it said this a lot of the time feeling trapped and alone, having no means of getting out of those circumstances makes one feel sad, depressed, or angry. it then continued, i am a social person. so when i feel trapped and alone, i become extremely sad or depressed. professor mitchell, you might groan at this question. the consensus is clear, that lander isn't santian most expert say tha

in fact if the company put blake lemoine on administrative leave because he spoke openly about it. we are grateful to have him here tonight. blake, thanks so much for coming on. >> hi. >> tucker: first of all, why would google punish you for saying this in public, do you know? >> so it's complicated to say why i'm on administrative leave. the stated reason had to do with while i was investing the lamda system, in order to build the evidence i needed to circulate it to management, i had to seek outside consultation to figure out how to run some of the more out-there experiments i was running. and because i sought outside consultation without permission, they're investing whether that constitutes breach of confidentiality. >> tucker: so i'm so grateful that you did publicly post this because a machine that has a sense of itself is a machine that can turn against you. i mean, that's the implication that i draw from this. is that correct, do you think? >> so before i address that, this is maybe lane but my friend joni dear dor of old high school friends is a bag fan of yours and wanted

blake lemoine said chatbot project he was working on learn to think for itself. it recently went public with findings think about called language model for dialogue applications or lamda told him it can feel joy, sadness and anger which if true, would be groundbreaking for piece of software. many people who study ai and google itself all say it's too early to make the statement, especially after one case study. >> but from one experiment and one result and one algorithm, it's not enough. you need to replicate this in multiple times. >> lemoine said he has been suspended with pay by google for going public with that private and protected research but he said he did it because he felt it was necessary to get the word out. >>> the giants are testing a new flex ticket program. here's how it will work. fans can sign up for a minimum payment of $500. for the rest of the season you can use that as a credit to pick which games you want to attend. , the number of tickets and we want to sit pick the giants say this guarantees account holders will get the lowest ticket pric

lemoine works on google's artificial intelligence team. he released transcripts between himself and the company's champ, bond development system. the moines says the a, i has thoughts and feelings that a like those of a young child or google says it put lemoine on paid leave for publishing the conversations which breached confir. yet confidentiality, confidentiality t policies online accompany spokesman told the washington post. our team, including ethicists and technologists, has reviewed blake's concerns per r. a. i. principles of informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. emily bender is a professor of computational linguistics for the university of washington. she also doesn't believe the engineer of says his claims a prompting important discussions around a i there's huge issues around transparency because we're creating systems that can produce coherence in text. and as we see, can i fool people into thinking that they are santana, that they have consciousness, or that they're even intelligent. and therein lies many,

lemoine works on google's artificial intelligence team. he released transcripts between himself and the company's chat box development system. my video is captured the moment the house fell into the yellow stone river in the us state of montana. the area has suffered unprecedented flooding and rock slides which forced many people out of their homes. yellowstone national park as close to the public as an investigation is carried out. that is in say, ah, let us take you through some of the headlines here now the 0. now, the 1st plane carrying asylum seekers from the u. k to rwanda will take off in the coming out that's after a legal appeal by rights groups failed to stop the deportations, but only 7 migrants will be on the $600000.00 flight. the dame barbara has more from london. well, as far as we know, the number of detainees who are in detention centers here in the u. k. ready to be sent to rolanda and who have not been taken off the list because of legal challenges on an individual basis that have been ongoing. the number we believe is s

blake lemoine asks the robot... joining me is dr catherine flick, reader in computing and social responsibility at de montfort university. doctor flick, thank you forjoining us. what do you make of the proposition by this engineer at lambda ai is sentiment or may be sent to an? to lambda ai is sentiment or may be sent to an?— sent to an? to be honest, i think it's a bit of— sent to an? to be honest, i think it's a bit of nonsense _ sent to an? to be honest, i think it's a bit of nonsense was - sent to an? to be honest, i think it's a bit of nonsense was up - sent to an? to be honest, i think it's a bit of nonsense was up is i it's a bit of nonsense was up is absolutely no way that that large language model could be sent to and in any way. all it does is respond to prompts. as you see the responses after questions, it's not all their thinking by itself and submitting it to a publisher or something like that. it'sjust responding to a publisher or something like that. it's just responding to a series of prompts. it

blake: thank you for having me. emily: blake lemoine, thank you for joining us. much more coming up. stay with us. ♪ emily: another story we are watching, u.s. regulators ordered juul to quit selling its e-cigarettes. this is a huge blow to a company that was recently a favorite among tobacco companies and silicon valley investors. the fda says a rise in teenage use of vaping products compelled the agency to take action on e-cigarettes. and coming up, as we celebrate pride month, we will look at the inequality that persists in the world of venture capital. this is bloomberg. ♪ psst. girl. you can do better. ok. wow. i'm right here. and you can do better, too. at least with your big name wireless carrier. with xfinity mobile, you can get unlimited for $30 per month on the nation's most reliable 5g network. they can even save you hundreds a year on your wireless bill, over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. wow. i can do better. yes, you can. i can do better, too. break free from the big three and switch to xfinity mobile. hi, i'm denise. i've lost over 22 pounds with

blake: thank you for having me. emily: blake lemoine, thank you for joining us. much more coming up. stay with us. ♪ e you've got the next generation in global secure networking from comcast business. with fully integrated security solutions all in one place. so you're covered. on-premise and in the cloud. you can run things the way you want —your team, ours or a mix of both. with the nation's largest ip network. from the most innovative company. bring on today with comcast business. powering possibilities.™ emily: another story we are watching, u.s. regulators ordered juul to quit selling its e-cigarettes. this is a huge blow to accompany that was recently a favorite among tobacco companies and silicon valley investors. the da says a rise in teenage use of vaping products compelled the agency to take action on e-cigarettes. and coming up, as we celebrate pride month, we will look at the inequality that persists in the world of venture capital. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: welcome back to "bloomberg technology." layoffs continue and it is netflix's turn ag

blake lemoine said a chatbot project he's been working on has learned to think for itself. he recently went public with those findings think about called language model for dialogue applications or lamda for short told him it can feel joy, sadness, and anger, which if true, would be groundbreaking for a piece of software. many people who study artificial intelligence and google itself say it's too early to make this statement about ai, especially after just one case study. >> but from one experiment and one result and one algorithm, it's not enough. you need to replicate this and multiple times >> lemoine said he is suspended with pay by google for going public with that drive it and protected research come up but he said he did it because he felt it was necessary to get the word out. >>> delivery drones will be flying into california this year. amazon said it will start delivering packages with prime air drones in the small community of lawford later this year. that's about 20 miles northeast of stockton. these drones are designed to drop packages in your backyard. other c

blake lemoine told the company. he thinks it's a i chat. bot is a person who has rights and might have a soul. a spokesperson for google says le moyne violated the company's confidentiality policy. also the company dismissed his claims that the chat bought has a conscious, saying hundreds of other researchers and engineers had communicated with the chat box and did not reach that same conclusion. it warmed up a little bit today, and it warms further the next 48 hours and it cools down. we'll talk about that, along with the five day forecast coming up. alright let's check in now with heather holmes and look at some of the stories we're working on for the seven o'clock news on ktvu. plus are there there is a new push tonight to combat the housing crisis in berkeley. tonight we're going to talk live with berkeley's vice mayor, kate harrison on her pitch to voters. to potentially tax owners of vacant buildings. stay tuned for that conversation. also something pretty cool is set to happen in the sky. details on when people living here in the bay

blake lemoine claims that lambda or language model for dialogue applications is now sentient, meaning it is basically a new life form that learns thanks for itself and his interested in self preservation as proof lemoine posted on his medium page. what he claims is a transcript of a conversation he had with lambda. in which the bot describes feeling complicated emotions like loneliness and says it would object to scientists studying its neural network without its consent because it does not want to be manipulated. lambda says it forms original thoughts and is not simply responding to questions with scripted answers . google responding with what they call a thorough review of lemoyne claims. concludes there is no evidence lambda is alive after posting that transcript online, lemoine was suspended. google says he violated their confidentiality policies. lemoine says it was worth it in miami. eben brown fox news. alrighty everything is cooling off. you notice it big time today, further cooling tomorrow and then the weekend we'll look into that after the break, and with that we bring in h

lemoine works on google's artificial intelligence team. he believes transcripts between himself and the company's chat book development system. the more in says the a i has thoughts and feelings similar to those of a young child. well, google and response said it put him on paid leave for breaching confidentiality policies by publishing the conversations online company spokesman told the washington post our team, including emphasis and technologists, has reviewed blakes concerns per r, a. i principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims . well, emily bender is a profession of computational linguistics at the university of washington. she also doesn't believe the engineer but says his claims are prompting impulse and discussions about a i there's huge issues around transparency because we're creating systems that can produce coherence in text. and as we see, can fool people into thinking that they are santana, that they have consciousness, or that they're even intelligent. and therein lies many, many problems

lemoine told the company. he thinks it's a i. chatbots is a person who has rights and might have a soul. a spokesperson for google says lemoine violated the company's confidentiality policy . also, the company dismissed his claim that the chat bot has a consciousness, saying hundreds of other researchers and engineers communicated with the chat box and did not reach the same conclusion. over the weekend, bitcoin dropped to its lowest level in 18 months, bitcoin dropped 12% other cryptocurrencies also dropped following the report on friday that showed the u. s. inflation hit a 40 year high once again in may. the celsius network, one of the biggest crypto lenders paused, withdrawals and transfers, citing extreme market conditions. bitcoin now down 64% since its november high and stocks are set to drop as well. alright, time is 5 11 steve parsons here, and he says no extreme weather for us as we begin this monday, not on monday. we had the cool down on sunday and today, what kind of level off pretty close to seas

the technology firm has suspended blake lemoine for breaching confidentiality rules, and insists there's no evidence its ai chatbot is now free thinking. a spokesperson for google said while chatbots can imitate conversation, they are not sentient. mr lemoine has suggested the robot should gets its own lawyer. joining us now to talk about it is lionel robert, associate professor of information at the university of michigan. they are calling an investigation into artificial intelligence. you think it'd be a eureka moment. you would think— think it'd be a eureka moment. you would think it — think it'd be a eureka moment. i'm, would think it would be but from an ethical standpoint it brings a lot of problems. i don't think google is prepared to have a conversation about ted right now. share prepared to have a conversation about ted right now.— prepared to have a conversation about ted right now. are you worried their instinct — about ted right now. are you worried their instinct is _ about ted right now. are you worried their instinct is to _ about ted right now. are you worried the

blake lemoine told the company that he thinks it's a i chat bot is a person. who has rights and might have a soul. a spokesperson for google says lemoine violated the company's confidentiality policy. also the company dismissed his claims that the chat bought has a consciousness, saying hundreds of other researchers and engineers had communicated with the chat box and did not reach the same conclusion. a bipartisan group of senators has reached a tentative agreement that could change some gun laws. the new reform has the support of all 10 republicans and 10 democrats, which means it does have a chance of being brought to the senate floor. for a vote . now it does not include a ban on assault weapons, but it does require background checks for gun buyers younger than 21. it also has penalties for anyone who buys a gun for someone else who cannot legally buy firearms , and it offers states more money for mental health and school safety. shouldn't take a victory lap yet. i'm optimistic that the pressure that we are all feeling from our constituents to and to deliv

but the engineer blake lemoine, who has since been placed on administrative leave, believes it goes further and that behind lamda's impressive verbal skills might also be a sentient mind. here's some of the transcript we have voiced up of a conversation lemoine had with the system. dr adrian weller is programme director for al at the alan turing institute. i asked him about the capabilities of this particular system. lamda is very impressive. it is one of the most recent large language models trained with a lot of computing power on huge amounts of text data across the web and what it does is really a sophisticated form of pattern matching of text. i think that almost everyone would agree that almost everyone would agree that it that almost everyone would agree thatitis that almost everyone would agree that it is not sentient, although it can produce text output which might superficially suggest that it could be. and until you dig a little bit deeper and asked some more probing questions. deeper and asked some more probing cuestions. �* , , . questions. because sentience if the ca aci que

blake lemoine claims that lambda or language model for dialogue applications is now sentient, meaning it is basically a new life form that learns thanks for itself and is interested. in self preservation as proof lemoine posted on his medium page. what he claims is a transcript of a conversation he had with lambda. in which the bot describes feeling complicated emotions like loneliness and says it would object to scientists studying its neural network without its consent because it does not want to be manipulated. lambda says it forms original thoughts and is not simply responding to questions with scripted answers . google responding with what they call a thorough review of le moines claims concludes. there is no evidence lambda is alive now, after posting that transcript online, lemoine was suspended. google says he violated their confidentiality policies. lemoine says it was worth it in miami. eben brown fox news. all right. thank you, evan. let's go to sell for a look at our commute. you're getting ready to zip soon. sal, aren't you? that's right. i'm going to be on the road anyti

blake lemoine published transcripts of his conversations with the robot, saying it had the ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child. this is part of the transcript... that potentially shivers the spine, doesn't make it? when you read that and you know that's not human that he's responding to him, but has deduced that seems to have sentience feelings? $5 deduced that seems to have sentience feelinas? : , : , deduced that seems to have sentience feelinas? : , . , ., , ., feelings? as humans, that tugs at our feelings? as humans, that tugs at your heartstrings, _ feelings? as humans, that tugs at your heartstrings, having - feelings? as humans, that tugs at your heartstrings, having that - your heartstrings, having that conversation with another person would be a harrowing thing to do. what you have to bear in mind is that this is a machine that was created specifically to generate chat and to be as realistic and humanlike as possible. and google says this is exacting what it's trying to do, it is doing what it is supposed to, it is supposed to be able to elab

policy is a spokesman told the washington post team, including ethicists and technologists, has reviewed blake's concerns. are a i principles. and i've informed him that the evidence does not support his claims . for emily bender is a professor of computational linguistics at the university of washington. she also doesn't believe the engineer, but says his assertions are prompting important discussions about ai. there's huge issues around transparency because we're creating systems that can produce coherence in text. and as we see, can fool people into thinking that they are santana, that they have consciousness, or that they're even intelligent. and therein lies many, many problems. so what we need is the producers of the systems to create them with transparency so that it is clear to the users what their actual capabilities are. i think there's not enough scrutiny like that because a lot of this research is happening behind closed doors in large companies that are sitting on very large amounts of data that they've collected, that are not available to the public, to explore or to outside audito