Google fires employee who took leave to care for his mother with terminal cancer

 A Google employee, who took leave from the company, to take care of his terminally ill mother, was laid off. Paul Baker, who worked at Google as Video Production Manager, revealed he was fired while he was on carer’s leave. His laptop’s connection was cut off but when he logged in through his personal computer,…

Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person. Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his…