Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by Victerius on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:00PM (#32198641)

Can code feel emotions?

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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.

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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).

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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()

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by SnowHill9902 on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:32PM (#32199301)

God doesn’t use Python.

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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.

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