Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by whimsicalism on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:50PM (#32199421)

e: Keeping below comment for posterity, but given that this is his official twitter profile photo I'm going to retract it.

> But if I wanted people to take me seriously, that wouldn't be my first choice of outfit.

You would wear the most serious outfits at all time so no publication can ever take a picture of you to make fun of you?

Sounds exhausting.

But let's be clear - it's not like he picked out this photo to be used by this author, this was their choice to make fun of him.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by zach_garwood on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:29PM (#32199655)

I'm sure there are plenty of unflattering photos a journo could use against me, but in none of them would I be dressed and posed to look like a subnautical mortician.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by whimsicalism on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:32PM (#32199669)

I've also now seen that he is actually using this photo as his twitter profile photo.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by kareemsabri on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:17PM (#32199581)

He appeared on the author's podcast. The author seems generally supportive of him.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mlcrypto on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:32PM (#32199672)

It's his LinkedIn photo

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