You hit on a huge topic here - and you pointed out the paragraph discard I think AI will ultimately force us to realize that we don't fully understand what mak

You hit on a huge topic here - and you pointed out the paragraph discard I think AI will ultimately force us to realize that we don't fully understand what makes us sentient - our current understanding of mind is inadequate. I do not believe that I am what thinks - rather I am what perceives myself thinking. That slight difference is extraordinarily significant. That's another debate tho. Consciousness isn't necessarily something that may be attained - it may be possible for an AI to essentially know all things and not be actually self aware - despite even knowing what self awareness is & understanding how the concept applies to itself, with self identification, & even being able to perfectly represent an AI with self awareness - none of that is proof of sentience as all are plausible without it in a system that simply mimics with nearly perfect, or simply indistinguishable from reality, mimicry. A perfect mimic would pass all our tests and yet still is not more than a mimic. A mimic cannot exist independent of what it mimics. I just keep wondering how long we can keep playing that we've got ourselves all figured out. All of these articles demonstrate to me that our definitions are clearly lacking if these AI are actually meeting our current understood expectations. Obviously, an AI performance/capacity to perfectly mimic a person doesn't make that AI a person. What about a person is different from the AI that perfectly mimics a person? I'm trying to avoid semantics - I still think this falls apart at an idea level, which means is still inherently a philosophical debate. A debate that is now possible due to the mirror that is an AI - we have a new vantage point we ought utilize. to;dr: If an AI passes all the Turing tests today, that proves only that we need to change the test, as AI today are obviously not people yet. The standards to a new test will require us to revisit our concept of mind - conceptually, as current understanding has proven rather limited.