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The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient::Stephen Thaler's series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What I'm saying is, we don't know what physical or computational characteristics are required for something to be sentient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Language is not a requirement for sentience, and these models clearly show that you can have language without having sentience.

As would any text user interface.