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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by ithkuil on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:58PM (#32199461)
Intellingent != sentient
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by beambot on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:57AM (#32200526)
Indeed. I also know a lot of humans who are unable to "consider and reason about arbitrary things", yet most people would qualify them as sentient.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:57AM (#32202519)
Granted, yet people argue that this system isn't sentient they are largely pointing out ways in which its intelligence is lacking. It can't do simple math, for instance. Nevermind that most animals can't either, yet we consider them sentient.
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