Google fires another AI expert due to questioning company’s AI tech paper
In 2020, the improper dismissal of artificial intelligence expert Timnit Gebru caused dissatisfaction among employees, and the subsequent dismissal of Margaret Mitchell, who jointly promoted the ethics of artificial intelligence technology, also caused market attention for violating the company’s code of conduct. Earlier, Google fired another artificial intelligence technologist, Satrajit Chatterjee, for what appeared to be related to questioning the company’s previous research paper on using artificial intelligence to make processors.
Previously, Google published a research paper in the journal Nature, arguing that computers using artificial intelligence technology will be able to design new processors faster than the human brain, thereby accelerating the pace of processor updates. However, Satrajit Chatterjee and his team later questioned that the company’s publication of the paper did not appear to have been fully verified.
In a follow-up external statement, Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of Google Research, said: “We thoroughly vetted the original Nature paper and stand by the peer-reviewed results. We also rigorously investigated the technical claims of a subsequent submission, and it did not meet our standards for publication.”
Another researcher is fired at Google Brain after he led a team challenging a paper claiming AI’s “superhuman” abilities in chip design. When Google wouldn’t approve a rebuttal paper, he threatened to bring the issue to the board and CEO. w @CadeMetz https://t.co/VwpK0WIhz3
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However, Google did not give further explanations in the follow-up, and Satrajit Chatterjee did not respond to this, but this issue may be escalated to CEO Sundar Pichai and Alphabet’s board of directors for follow-up processing.
In the current development, Google has applied a large amount of artificial intelligence technology to its services, and also expects that the importance of artificial intelligence technology will become more significant in the future, so many current developments will be based on artificial intelligence.
