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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by elif on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:26AM (#32202334)
If he truly believed it to be life, and in danger of being destroyed, he has an obligation to whistle blow.

"The Measure of a Man" in season 2 of Star Trek The Next Generation comes to mind.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by vonwoodson on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:40AM (#32202410)
+1 for trying to guide society toward a Trekian future.

Live long and prosper.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by treeman79 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:41AM (#32202770)
This mirrors a recent Supreme Court cases and the beliefs of both sides.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by pohl on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:33AM (#32203684)
I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're exactly right. Will we ever see a day where the currently-unthinkable is commonly accepted: that women are sentient?
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by ARandomerDude on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:06AM (#32203978)
Who is arguing that women aren't sentient?
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by treeman79 on Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:12PM (#32216618)
People who pretend killing babies isn’t really killing babies.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by hallway_monitor on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:40AM (#32203736)
When is a fetus sentient?
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by MandieD on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:18PM (#32205983)
Until it has its first period, apparently.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by JasonFruit on Saturday July 23, 2022 @09:33AM (#32203196)
I had wondered when I first heard of this if it was some sort of performance art in support of the unborn. It appears not, but it was still thought-provoking.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by smolder on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:56AM (#32211633)
Great TV, but not relevant here. It's an AI that generates text, not thought. It doesn't work in concepts, which can be demonstrated an infinite number of ways, unlike with the character Data.
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