What Is Called Thinking?

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Is AI Sentient?
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Is AI Sentient?

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Zohar Atkins
Jun 13, 2022
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I don’t know, but am inclined to think “no,” if sentience involves anything like a sense of self-consciousness, interiority, care for the world, or existential motivation. But this is a question that is alive in our culture, an ersatz theology for the secular age. This “dialogue” between a Google Engineer and an AI is quite remarkable, the stuff of sci…

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