Satrajit Chatterjee has been fired by the giant search engine Company Google in a harassment dispute against an Artificial Intelligence Researcher who was working on an Artificial Intelligence chip-making project.

Highlights

Under the harassment accusations, Google fired Satrajit Chatterjee
Chatterjee’s Lawyer says his client has not leaked a paper criticising Google’s AI
 The research unit of Google has faced scrutiny since late 2020

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Google said, the company has fired a senior engineering manager and his colleagues, whose primary research on artificial intelligence software he had been trying to discredit, accused him of harassing behavior.

The research unit of Google has faced scrutiny since 2020 when workers lodged open complaints and publication practices.

A major turn came after the scientific journal Nature June published “A graph placement methodology for fast chip design,” it was led by Google scientists Azalia Mirhoseini and Anna Goldie. They have discovered that AI could be the connector between the latest technology and the modern world, and it can complete a key step in the design process for chips, known as floor planning, which is faster and better than an unspecified human expert and act as a reference point.

One Google colleague said in a paper was anonymously posted online in March. He posted “Stronger Baselines for Evaluating Deep Reinforcement Learning in Chip Placement” and found that two alternate approaches based on basic software outperform the AI. One of them beat it on a well-known test and the second one on a Google Proprietary Google rubric.

Google declined to say on the leaked draft but two of the workers confirmed its authenticity.

The attorney of Chatterjee said “It’s unfortunate that Google has taken this turn,” added more “It was always his goal to have transparency about the course of two years for Google to address this.”

New York Times has first reported the firing of Google’s researcher. Google Researcher Goldie also told the New York Times that Chatterjee had harassed her and Mirhoseini for years by spreading misinformation about them.

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