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Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conver... by bgwalter on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:21PM (#44917949)
What is that hypothetical date? In theory you can run the "AI" on a Turing machine. Would you think a tape machine can get sentient?
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Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conver... by HappMacDonald on Friday August 15, 2025 @09:14PM (#44919112)
In theory you can emulate every biochemical reaction of a human brain on a turing machine, unless you'd like to try to sweep consciousness under the rug of quantum indeterminism from whence it wouldn't be able to do anybody any good anyway.
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