Month: July 2022

Google fires Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed AI chatbot is a person

[ad_1] Enlarge / Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine. (credit: Getty Images | Washington Post) Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the software engineer who was previously put on paid leave after claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient. Google said Lemoine, who worked in the company’s Responsible AI unit, violated data security policies. “If an employee

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No sugarcoating: Donut math yields way to make qubits last longer

[ad_1] Enlarge / An ion trap, the quantum hardware that was used for this work. (credit: Honeywell) You can almost hear the indrawn breath from newsrooms around the world. Specialist science journalists have hidden themselves in the bathroom to weep quietly. The cause of such despair? Someone has released a paper containing the word “topology”—something

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