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I mean, an ant has signs of life yet you wouldn't call it sentient.

• diogenes4 3y ago
  Hell, plants show plenty of signs of life. What isn't clear is what this means when applied to a chatbot.
• otabdeveloper4 3y ago
  Why not? You're using a very bizzare conception of "sentience".
  • mkl 3y ago
    They're using the science fiction definition, which is "sapient" and has been around for years (unfortunately). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sentient https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sentient
    • twodave 3y ago
      Or maybe the "ramen" (vs "varelse") from the Ender's Game series...
  • muzani 3y ago
    A common definition for the purposes of AGI is that it has to be self-aware. But as someone else mentioned, the sci-fi definition is popular too: human-level intelligence. "AI" is a bit of a loaded word. It does tasks of human-level intelligence well. But as far as being self-aware, it probably scores worse than a car. It's remarkably tricky to measure, because it's trained to act intelligent and use human language, but it's still effectively an autocomplete machine. An ant is fairly robotic as far as organisms go, but it's also quite self-aware. It can communicate danger or food, it withdraws from death and damage. It likely doesn't have a sense of self, though an ant hill may. Just as our cells don't have a self-identity, but the larger system does.