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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by ChadNauseam on Saturday July 23, 2022 @03:03AM (#32201083)
Is an inability to add large numbers together evidence against sentence? Because if so, I have bad news for about 90% of people alive
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by muzani on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:55AM (#32201599)
Parent means to say that its ability to add numbers is an illusion brought about by seeing enough numbers. The same way it gives the illusion of deep thinking by parroting deep thoughts it was trained on.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by taneq on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:58PM (#32209135)
"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest [machine learning systems] and the dumbest [humans]."
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mongol on Saturday July 23, 2022 @05:07AM (#32201651)
Is it bad news for a non-sentient being to hear they are non-sentient?
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