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It's just semantics. Some people use intelligence to mean sentience, others use it to mean directed problem solving / solution-finding.
by brookst 4y ago
It's just semantics. Some people use intelligence to mean sentience, others use it to mean directed problem solving / solution-finding.
- eynsham 4y agoCould you give an example of people who explicitly claim that sentience is equivalent to intelligence? I’d agree that some arguments trade on an equivocation between the two, but I don’t think their adherents intentionally do so.
- brookst 4y agoThe post I replied to seemed to make the conflation. Because “just guessing the next word” seems like a reasonable refutation to sentience, but not to intelligence. I agree that it’s not usually an intentional mixup. From what I’ve seen it’s mostly a lack of rigor in defining terms.