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pvg on July 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

A century ago it was not possible to make a machine that could as much as fake even limited intelligence. A machine that generated plausible human text or image, a machine that played checkers, etc. Our understanding of the mechanisms underlying biological life is incomparably greater, we've sent probes to just about every planet in the solar system, etc. 'No closer than a century ago' is a bewildering claim.

civilized on July 23, 2022 [–]

Not "no closer". Just, those goals are so far away that even a century of real, significant progress is small in comparison.

I'm aware that impressive things have happened, but they're not remotely the same. We have a long way to go.

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