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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mouzogu on Saturday July 23, 2022 @03:05AM (#32201090)
> what evidence do we have that humans are sentient, other than our own conscious observations

sentience and consciousness are the same thing...

if i believe i am conscious and so do you, then it's good enough for me. why does there need to be a light switch.

if there are 5 deer in the field and i have 1 bow and arrow, i need to focus my attention and track one deer only for 5 or 10 mins to hunt it - consciousness allow us to achieve this. it is a product of evolutionary process.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by colordrops on Saturday July 23, 2022 @03:54AM (#32201312)
Yes, we also don't know what consciousness is.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mouzogu on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:37AM (#32201503)
consciousness is self directed awareness for accomplishing some specific task, like the deer example.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by colordrops on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:27PM (#32204801)
What do "self directed" and "awareness" mean here? This seems circular.
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