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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by nshkrdotcom on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:13PM (#42139243)
An embodied robot can have a model of self vs. the immediate environment in which it's interacting. Such a robot is arguably sentient.

The "hard problem", to which you may be alluding, may never matter. It's already feasible for an 'AI/AGI with LLM component' to be "self-aware".

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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by ryanackley on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:34PM (#42139500)
An internal model of self does not extrapolate to sentience. By your definition, a windows desktop computer is self-aware because it has a device manager. This is literally an internal model of its "self".

We use the term self-awareness as an all encompassing reference of our cognizant nature. It's much more than just having an internal model of self.

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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by j_maffe on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:14PM (#42139268)
self-awareness is only one aspect of sentience.
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