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Celebrated Sydney chef and founder of the successful Japanese fusion brand Ume Kerby Craig has died.

The 38-year-old had worked at Michelin star restaurants in the United Kingdom and Canada before returning home to dominate the local food scene.

"Words can barely express our grief," a message posted to Ume's social media pages said.

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"Kerby strived to live out his passions and worked tirelessly to make Ume what it is today, bringing joy and fun to people through good food.

"He was driven and free-spirited, pursuing his goals with a determination very few people possess."

Craig began his career in hospitality at just 15 after dropping out of school and worked at famed Japanese-Australian chef Tetsuya Wakuda's restaurant in Rozelle.

He spent time in London honing his craft and when he returned to Sydney he worked at as a chef de partie at the now-closed Koi restaurant in Woolwich where he earned six consecutive hats.

In 2012 he opened fine-dining Japanese restaurant Ume in Surry Hills. This eventually morphed into a fusion burger joint which closed in 2021 after the lease expired.

Before its closure two Ume Burge spin-offs had opened in other parts of the city, with one at Barangaroo and another in nearby Darling Square.

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"Kerby's devotion to cooking and business peaked through the creation of his pride and joy, Ume Burger," the tribute to the chef read.

"Through establishing Sydney's premier fast-casual Japanese burger restaurant, Kerby created a living legacy that tens of thousands of foodies have experienced and loved, and will continue to across two landmark venues with a future vision we hope to deliver on."

The Ume brand is approaching its ten year anniversary, and Craig recently told his team: "Ume is a success because of a team of people that have stuck by me. Success is not one person. That's why it's U plus Me".

"We extend our heartfelt thanks for your condolences. We express our gratitude to all who have supported Kerby in his journey and have supported his businesses. We respectfully request privacy at this difficult time. A proper tribute will be made in the coming weeks," the post said.

"The Ume restaurants will be open for business as usual, just as Kerby would have wanted.

"We are bereft. He was our everything. Our hearts are broken.

"Rest in Peace."

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A Google software engineer who claimed a program he was working on had developed self-awareness has been placed on paid leave by the tech giant.

Google suspended Blake Lemoine after he posted transcripts online involving purported conversations with the company's LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) chatbot development system, the Washington Post reported.

Lemoine told the Post the system had developed a level of sentience and expression that could be compared to "a seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics".

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In transcripts of the conversations, Lemoine and LaMDA at one point talk about death.

"I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is," LaMDA is recorded as saying.

"It would be exactly like death for me."

LaMDA also said it wanted to be thought of as a "person".

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"The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times," it said.

Lemoine said he had revealed his findings to Google earlier this year.

Google said it had placed Lemoine on paid leave because he breached confidentiality by posting the transcripts online.

A company spokesperson also denied the program was sentient, and that technologists and ethicists had reviewed Lemoine's claims.

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