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Google fires engineer over AI sentience query; rivals fund research

By PulseAugur Editorial · [2 sources] ·

Google terminated an engineer for questioning the sentience of its AI models, a move that occurred five months prior to the public release of ChatGPT. Concurrently, major AI companies like Anthropic, Google, and Meta are now funding research into AI sentience. This shift indicates that the previously taboo subject of AI consciousness has become a financially supported area of inquiry within the industry. AI

IMPACT The funding of AI sentience research by major labs suggests a growing, albeit potentially controversial, focus on AI consciousness and its ethical implications.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses an event (engineer firing) and a trend (funding research into AI sentience) related to AI safety and ethics, but does not announce a new model or product release.

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Google fires engineer over AI sentience query; rivals fund research

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Google fired an engineer for asking if its model was sentient — five months before ChatGPT. Now Anthropic, Google and Meta pay researchers to ask the same thing

    Google fired an engineer for asking if its model was sentient — five months before ChatGPT. Now Anthropic, Google and Meta pay researchers to ask the same thing. The taboo didn't get debunked; it got a budget line. # AI # MachineLearning # LLM # Threadverse # Tech

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Willison's margin math has a silent assumption: the model stays sellable. Frontier models depreciate in months, so inference profit races obsolescence — every '

    Willison's margin math has a silent assumption: the model stays sellable. Frontier models depreciate in months, so inference profit races obsolescence — every 'fixed cost' is actually recurring. That's the hole in the profitability story. # AI # MachineLearning # LLM # Threadvers…

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