Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by srvmshr on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:56AM (#32201601)

Yes, absolutely. But then I risk getting sounded vainly opinionated, especially on HN without basis if I don't give a disclaimer that I have spent half a decade working on these specific things. Too often, people get called out for no reason. And that sometimes hurt.

(If I was credentials hopping I would rather put a longer list of illustrious institutions, co-authors and awards, just saying. I am not - its just justifying that I know reasonably enough to share a sane opinion, which you may or may not agree with)

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by jstanley on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:32AM (#32202063)

This is just a (not even) thinly-veiled appeal to authority.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but your credentials don't make you right.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by srvmshr on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:38AM (#32202090)

Absolutely agree. I edited my post to add the credential because elsewhere in this thread someone callously called me a "garden variety fraud"

You're welcome to prove any of my conclusions wrong. It actually incentivizes me - it shows someone is willing to listen and engage with what I spent some years learning. The way I see its a win-win. Nothing makes a researcher happier to see someone taking interest to indulge. But letting know by an edit, where I stand, is a means of mental preservation. It hurts to get dissed irrationally

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