LaMDA. Shazeer and De Freitas left Google in 2021 after the company reportedly refused to release a chatbot the two had developed. A lawyer for Garcia has previously said that this chatbot was the ...

This isn't the first time a chatbot has been in hot water. In July, Google fired an engineer for saying its chatbot LaMDA was sentient. LaMDA is probably not sentient, but it is pretty racist and ...

It also argues that the bot explicitly discouraged Garcia’s son from killing himself. Garcia’s targeting of Google is particularly significant. The company entered into a $2.7 billion deal ...