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Could general-AI language generation be a test for sentience, sapience, or consciousness?
One of the oft-cited examples of how to test if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is intelligent (often expanded to sentient) is the Turing test. Simply, an AI or machine passes the Turing test if it can ...
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The Leibniz - Turing Dilemma
The Turing Test is basically the idea that when (a) computer and a human can't be differentiated, that computer is an AI.
Identity of Indiscernibles boils down to if A is indistinguishable from B then ...
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What methods have been proposed to identify sentience in an AI?
It is in the news that google has suspended a software engineer for violating confidentiality policies after sought "outside consultation" over concerns the AI he was working on is sentient. ...
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Man's Relation to AI vs. God's Relation to Man
I have been a hacker and programmer since I was 14 and I have done advanced education and research in Artificial Intelligence. We all know that we do not yet have a computer entity that is "truly" ...
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Can artificially intelligent machines ever become sentient?
To those posting opinionated comments or answers (i.e. not factual research), please first describe your perspective of sentience and artificially intelligent machines - this is not the same as their ...
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What are the minimum necessary and sufficient conditions for something to be considered sentient?
The answer to Could a sentient machine suffer? suggests that
The ability to suffer would not seem to be a necessary condition for sentience
This made me wonder what the minimum necessary and ...
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