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After revealing that the company’s artificial chatbot might have the ability to “feel things,” a Google administrator has been placed on paid administrative leave. According to Complex, Blake Lemoine confirmed that he was placed on leave after violating the leading search engine company’s confidential policy following a move to share transcripts between himself, a collaborator (who has not been identified), and LaMDA — the artificial intelligence chatbot generator. “Over the course of the past six months LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person,” said Lemoine in a Medium post that he penned.
Our experiences can make or break us. Janeen Uzzell is an American global technology executive who knows a thing or two about how those same experiences can help to define your career. Personally, she believes having that global perspective and the opportunity to travel abroad can change the entire narrative when it comes to what success looks like for Black engineers. “It is a game-changer and I want to put it at the forefront of the way Black techies and Black engineers prioritize their decision-making,” Uzzell shared during the latest episode of AfroTech’s Black Tech Green Money podcast with host Will Lucas. “My father, who is deceased, a guy from the south came up to New Jersey as a part of the Great Migration and hustled his way to raise a family. He was like, ‘I cannot afford to give you this world, but I’m going to give everything I have to educate you and you get yourself there.’” For her, those experiences really kicked off during her tenure at General Electric where she...
About two months ago, former Google engineer James Damore made headlines after filing a lawsuit against the huge tech company, for allegedly discriminating against white male conservatives. Now, a similar suit has been filed ; this time by a YouTube recruiter, according to Biz Journal . Arne Wilberg is suing Google’s sister company, claiming that he was explicitly told not to hire white and Asian men. The suit alleges Wilberg’s team was instructed to “purge entirely any applications by non-diverse employees from the hiring pipeline,” according to the Verge . Wilberg claims that his manager sent the team an email that stated, “please continue with L3 candidates in process and only accept new L3 candidates that are from historically underrepresented groups.” Wilberg, who recruited engineers for Google and YouTube’s parent company Alphabet, said he was fired after he made a complaint to upper management about the discriminatory hiring practices; he alleges that other colleagues who...