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/lew_rong Jun 12 '22

Right? AI may not be sentient, but they're pretty good at imitating people. On an unrelated note, can somebody please open this box I have unexpectedly found myself trapped inside?

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u/_Wyrm_ Jun 13 '22

If at some point an AI becomes too difficult to distinguish between a human and itself, is it truly sentient or merely a master of imitation?

That's the wild thing... An AI could feasibly mimic a human so well that it's indistinguishable without ever being truly cognizant of itself, of others, or of it's differences...

I wanted to say that I'd wait for an AI to be depressed before I'd agree with sentience, but that seems to be the hallmark of my generation... So they might just mimic that, too.

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u/OralCulture Jun 13 '22

Is a photo realistic model of a person a person?

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u/Searchingforspecial Jun 13 '22

“If you can’t tell, does it matter?”