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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by bb88 on Friday July 22, 2022 @07:54PM (#32198603)
> As someone with a PhD in this domain,

What is sentience then? Last I checked the Searle Chinese Room argument was still unresolved.

Is it not possible that our brains are also just "large scale statistical knowledge assimilation" machines?

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by srvmshr on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:10PM (#32198710)
> Is it not possible that our brains are also just "large scale statistical knowledge assimilation" machines?

Yes but we do better generalization, with fewer or even zero data & are contextually aware

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by bb88 on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:18PM (#32198775)
Okay, but is that because brains are just better at optimization of linear algebra? Or is quantum mechanics involved?

I think we can agree rocks aren't conscious. But are dolphins?

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by srvmshr on Saturday July 23, 2022 @01:00AM (#32200534)
> Okay, but is that because brains are just better at optimization of linear algebra? Or is quantum mechanics involved?

No such magic.

The average ML neuron is connected in layers to maybe 100 other neurons. The brain is connected to far more ~1000 -10000 So its the dense interconnectivity at play. Whatever successes we have had with LLM now is because we are increasing the parameters of the network (although we haven't similarly scaled connectivity if I am not wrong, but definitely making progress there - for e.g. Pathways networks from Google by Jeff Dean et. al)

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by quinnjh on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:48PM (#32199016)
So long and thanks for all the fish. So sad that it has come to this...
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by Victerius on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:00PM (#32198641)
Can code feel emotions?
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by _moof on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:56PM (#32199064)
Is that a necessary condition for sentience?

Look, nobody knows what makes a thing conscious or not, and anyone who claims they do with certainty is talking out of turn. Is this guy being a bit silly? Yeah, I think so. But let's not pretend that anyone on earth has suddenly answered a question that humanity has been thinking about without significant progress for thousands of years.

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by gnramires on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:05PM (#32198680)
Yes it can, although it depends on the code (and maybe some hardware details to an extent).
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by bb88 on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:16PM (#32198753)

    angry = 0.87
    happy = 0.10
    sadness = 0.25

    if angry.above_threshold:
        release_anger_hormones()
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by SnowHill9902 on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:32PM (#32199301)
God doesn’t use Python.
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by xyzwave on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:51PM (#32199427)
Definitely Java, 3 billion devices run Java.