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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by dragonwriter on Monday May 01, 2023 @07:10PM (#35780588)
> BTW, it has passed many standardized tests under the same circumstances as a human.

No, it hasn’t, and it is physically impossible for it to. The extent to which the differences are material may be debatable, but this claim is simply false.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by cjbprime on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:32PM (#35782580)
It would be a useful contribution to explain what you think the material differences are, rather than referencing them through innuendo, as if anyone knows what you mean.
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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by jrk on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:44PM (#35783109)
I am not the original poster, but I assumed they meant as an embodied entity, interacting in the physical world.
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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by bbor on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:06PM (#35782812)
Technically no two sets of circumstances can EVER be the same ;). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Panta_rhei
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