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Re:'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True' by barking_biscuit on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:00PM (#34974771)
>Sentience is the ability to be able to experience feelings. In this regard, chatbots are not really convincing. Kind of like a psychopath can describe a feeling, but not actually feel it.

So, psychopaths aren't sentient?

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Re:'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True' by hgsgm on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:16PM (#34976921)
People conflate sentience with sapience.
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Re:'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True' by barking_biscuit on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:17PM (#34977479)
I see. Well, TIL. Tbh the more I look at the resolution people (myself included) have for these concepts in general, it really does seem like it's so low as to be virtually meaningless. That even holds for the those individuals or groups of individuals who coined the terms in the first place.

To that end, I find myself gravitating more and more towards higher level abstractions that have multiple existence proofs (e.g. Control Theory) and just looking at everything through lenses like that.

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