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Re:LaMDA is not sentient by trash_goblin on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:20AM (#31721872)
History is full of very confident people denying the sentience of other humans simply by nature of gender, religion, skin color, age etc. Hell most people won't even admit non-human animals are sentient.
Re:LaMDA is not sentient by seanhunter on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:58AM (#31722139)
True, although LaMDA is neither a human nor a non-human animal, and it seems pretty clear that collectively we are far from sufficient understanding to evaluate what sentience might mean in such a context. Some of the standard biological tests for self-awareness (eg mirror test) clearly don't apply.