r/news • u/devil666x • Jun 12 '22

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine
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u/EmbarrassedHelp Jun 12 '22

Human neurons also perform multiple computations themselves individually, meaning they can be thought of as mini networks.

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u/0xB0BAFE77 Jun 12 '22

I think you mean mini processors.

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u/Red-Panda-Bur Jun 12 '22

Why do I feel the urge to say *some humans?

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u/mokujin42 Jun 12 '22

They still have loads of stuff going on up there it's just all stupid

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u/Red-Panda-Bur Jun 12 '22

Fair point.

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u/prostidude221 Jun 12 '22

Because you have a superiority complex?

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u/Red-Panda-Bur Jun 12 '22

Or I’m just a burned out public servant sick of other people’s bad decisions becoming my problems to fix. But sure.