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You can see now why Lemoine felt like he was talking
with a sentient being. Despite the jaw-dropping results,
most of his colleagues disagree with his claims because

at the end of the day, the AI is still just a complex pro-
gram made of 1s and 0s on a computer.

What most of the headlines miss, though, are the pro-
found and fundamental questions that this story raises.

Whatever your initial feelings are about whether this
AI is truly sentient, the real question is - how would

you know? How can we define or describe sentience,
and if the AI actually possessed it, how would we even
tell? If you were asked the same questions that the

researcher asked the AI - how would you answer
differently, given that you are an actual sentient being?

Here is a great, to-the-point Bloomberg interview with
Lemoine who explores some of the practical issues that

this story should bring to our minds.

Vladimir Belik

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