Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
by saalweachter on Saturday July 23, 2022 @05:14AM
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Hell, there's a literary trope of talking to an echo that probably dates back centuries or millennia.
Like, 6.
It's just amusing how old this example is.
The Mechanical Turk was much much older - but easily shown to be a person hiding in the mechanism. I think ELIZA was in some sense a mirror, reflecting back consciousness, and that's the feeling we get from these systems.