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Re:AI Is Not a Horse by Tijdreiziger on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:05PM (#34483303)
Au contraire, the leap of logic is assuming that computer programs could never be sentient. We simply don’t have any proof either way, so we have to assume the possibility.
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Re:AI Is Not a Horse by avgcorrection on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:40PM (#34495465)
Sorry about the blase reply, then.

> Au contraire, the leap of logic is assuming that computer programs could never be sentient.

That’s not quite what I meant. I don’t categorically dismiss the possibility.

> We simply don’t have any proof either way, so we have to assume the possibility.

Like God?

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