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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:54PM (#12737515)
You are recapitulating Descartes. Consciousness appears to be immeasurable. You can only know that you are conscious. It is polite to give others the benefit of doubt.
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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by pharrington on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:14PM (#12737729)
The commenter said nothing about consciousness. He simply said that just being able to hold a conversation is not a particularly useful measure of intelligence. The broader form of that is that we don't even know if humans in general are intelligent.
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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by Scarblac on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:26PM (#12738320)
You can know that you are conscious, but how do you know you are intelligent?
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