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> Everybody already knows that code running on a computer cannot become sentient That sounds pretty confident considering we don't even know how sentience work
by alpaca128 4y ago
> Everybody already knows that code running on a computer cannot become sentient
That sounds pretty confident considering we don't even know how sentience works or emerges.
Aside from that I agree this specific story isn't particularly interesting, though. The media hyped it up to an insane degree.
- irthomasthomas 4y ago"That sounds pretty confident considering we don't even know how sentience works or appears" This works better the other way, no? - "The code has become sentient!” -- "Define sentient..." sound of crickets Edit: Actually, I suppose it wouldn't be the sound of crickets, but the sound of a thousand idiots regurgitating the last YouTube video they watched on the subject, but the informational content is the same.