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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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