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Re:'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True' by pixl97 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:07AM (#34970091)
People are also complete assholes and like to remove sentience from things if they find it inconvenient in any way.

Humans have removed 'humanhood' from other humans based on things like race, religion, wealth, and whatever metric we find convenient at the time. We seem to be a very poor judge on this in my point of view.

Re:'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True' by theGnuMe on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:42AM (#34970504)
I'm not removing sentience from anything; AI chat bots are not sentient.
Re:'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True' by jschveibinz on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:24AM (#34970306)
The second paragraph that you wrote is fantastic. The first paragraph is unnecessarily harsh, in my opinion. You don’t need to attack anyone here-we are all just trying to contribute to the conversation. That is all. Be well.
Re:'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True' by mr_00ff00 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:09PM (#34974876)
Taking your argument to the furthest extent:

Humans once dehumanized others, therefore humans should never judge what is human or not.

My pet rock looks very sentient to me. Anyone who tells me otherwise is just an asshole who is on the wrong side of history. Better extend human rights to all rocks.

tl;dr yes humans have been wrong in the past, but that isn’t any excuse to never try and explain anything and always believe everything is sentient the second someone claims it is.