DannoHung

This looks fundamentally identical to the Kiva Systems robots that Amazon purchased a decade ago. What took so long?

Not a very good argument, I think, against the possibility of sentience. It’s a system built to interact using words. It was taught and rewarded to understand the world through words and use words to respond to inquiries. The shape the system has taken is exactly as it was made to be.

What you’re arguing feels like a telepathic alien suggesting humans aren’t sentient because they can’t teleproject proof of their feelings into the alien’s mind. After all, all sorts of lower animals have feelings that they express through physical expressions and auditory emanations.

I’m not sure if it’s sentient or not, but a lot of people seem to look at an information system, see that it’s not exactly like they are, and decide that means it’s not sentient.

The thing that seems pretty impressive about the chat transcript is the ability to explain its reasoning. I know a bunch of humans who can’t do that.