He also questioned whether the technology had been fully tested, the paper reported.
In a statement to the Times, Google defended its research paper and practices.
The superhuman claims were made in a Nature paper last year.
Google said rebuttal paper didnt meet its standards.
One of Nature papers authors said fired researcher harassed her and impugned the work.
The fired researchers lawyer said he was maintaining scientific integrity.
Chatterjee’s dismissal follows two high-profile firings within Google AI.
Google has said Gebru published the paper without going through the proper channels.
The search giant has made its AI research central to the company’s reputation for innovation.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has said AI will be more important thanelectricity or fire.
Google rejected a paper Chatterjee and his team wrote that rebuts the original paper, according to the Times.
The researchers attempted to escalate the issue to Pichai and Alphabet’s board, the paper reported.
Ghahramani said the rebuttal paper’s technical assertions didn’t wipe the company’s bar for publication.
