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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mongol on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:58AM (#32201611)
> And, to quote Oliver Sachs: "I'm not sure about octopuses..."

I thought this quote was about the octopus that correctly predicted the outcome of games in a FIFA world cup. But seems it was something else?

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Saturday July 23, 2022 @05:55AM (#32201866)
Oliver said this during a roundtable discussion on metaphysics with Daniel Dennet, Steve Gould, Rupert Sheldrake, Freeman Dyson, and Stephen Toulmin from 1993.

It's a fascinating discussion with a lot of my favourite mid-late 20th century thinkers. It's up on youtube, lookup any of the names involved with "roundtable discussion". It's over 3 hours long though.

Anyway, Oliver was talking about what kind of mind he imagined various animals having. And that was most of what he had to say on octopuses.

It's a bit of a sad watch too because all the participants except Dennet and Sheldrake are dead now.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by DonHopkins on Saturday July 23, 2022 @05:38AM (#32201791)
...predicted? Or CAUSED???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mongol on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:09AM (#32201946)
It was Paul the Octopus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus

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