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On the Google engineer who thinks his AI has come to life: 1. Whether this terrifies or thrills you, this exchange is astonishing 2. Seems obvious that an advanced language AI would master the ability to communicate the experience of sentience before it actually experiences it
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I'm a AI/philosophy idiot, but: At some level, it makes no sense to investigate the self-awareness of a language-learning AI *thru language* right? It's like teaching a robot to swim, and then trying to measure its capacity for joy by calculating its swimming speed.
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The difference is that language and its outputs are exactly how we judge humans. There was just a story about a dude in a coma using his brain to ask for stuff one character at a time. His ability to create meaningful conversation is *sufficient* for everyone.
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