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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by vintermann on Saturday July 23, 2022 @09:46AM (#32203306)
The problem is that people, including credentialed experts, have quick and easy answers to what makes a person a person, and really good language models expose a few of the weaknesses in those definitions. People still want to derive an "ought" from an "is".
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by kuhewa on Saturday July 23, 2022 @09:56AM (#32203367)
How is it a problem in the case that you can fairly easily rule out the model being a person by any useful definition?
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by vintermann on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:08AM (#32203487)
Useful for what, and for who?

I think it should be ruled out, but "by any useful definition" is wrong because "use" is at the heart of the matter here.