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

Yes, we also don't know what consciousness is.

5350-uiop-1130 on July 23, 2022 [–]

consciousness is self directed awareness for accomplishing some specific task, like the deer example.

colordrops on July 23, 2022 | [–]

What do "self directed" and "awareness" mean here? This seems circular.

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