"Interestingly, more than one of these folks have turned out to be religious." The guy fired by google for announcing LaMDA was sentient was religious. I don'

"Interestingly, more than one of these folks have turned out to be religious." The guy fired by google for announcing LaMDA was sentient was religious. I don't really see a meaningful distinction between declaring a machine is "thinking" for hand waving religious reasons and hand waving non-religious reasons, I'm afraid.