Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
A gullible employee saw a computer program pass the Turing test and leapt to the conclusion that the thing was sentient. And then he couldn&#x27;t be persuaded to shut up about trade secrets to the press, so his employer fired him.<p>He probably thinks he&#x27;s some kind of whistleblower protecting a new life form. This is a known effect in human psychology and it was discovered in <i>1966</i>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ELIZA_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ELIZA_effect</a>