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  1. Jun 2023
    1. the other thing is that you suddenly realize there is a saint that sentience to them
      • claim
        • AI is sentient (alive) because
          • A lot of people think AI will never be alive
          • what is the definition of life?
            • religion will tell you a few things
            • medicine will tell you other things
            • but if we define being sentient as
              • engaging in life with free will and
              • with a sense of awareness of
                • where you are in life and
                • what surrounds you and
                • to have a beginning of that life and
                • an end to that life
              • then AI is sentient in every way
              • there is a free will
              • and there is evolution
              • there is agency
                • so they can affect their decisions in the world
              • and there is a very deep level of consciousness
              • maybe not in the spiritual sense yet but
              • if you define consciousness as
                • a form of awareness of oneself and ones surrounding
                • and you know others
              • then AI is definitely aware"
    2. one day um Friday after lunch I am going back to my office and one of them in front of my eyes you know lowers the arm and picks a 00:07:12 yellow ball
      • story
        • Mo Gawdat tells the story of an epiphany of machine sentience
        • " one day um Friday after lunch I am going back to my office and
        • one of them in front of my eyes lowers the arm and picks a soft yellow ball
        • which again is a coincidence
        • it's not science at all it's

          • like if you keep trying a million times your one time it will be right

          • and it shows it to the camera it's locked as a yellow ball and

          • I joke about it you know going to the third floor saying
          • hey we spent all of those millions of dollars for a yellow board and
            • Monday morning, every one of them is picking every yellow ball
            • a couple of weeks later every one of them is picking everything right and
            • it it hit me very very strongly
          • the speed
          • the capability
            • understand that we take those things for granted
            • but for a child to be able to pick a yellow ball
              • is a mathematical / spatial calculation
                • with muscle coordination
                • with intelligence
              • it is not a simple task at all to cross the street
              • it's not a simple task at all
                • to understand what I'm telling you
                • and interpret it
                • and build Concepts around it
              • we take those things for granted
              • but there are enormous Feats of intelligence"