have no framework for evaluating its link to sentience. — Baden
On what grounds is your biological similarity key? Why not your similarity of height, or weight, or density, or number of limbs... — Isaac
The best argument against the sentience of software is that Turing Machines by their nature cannot instantiate any process, they can only simulate it. The only thing they ever instantiate is the process of a Turing Machine. — hypericin
Sentience is a function of the brain. Similar organisms have similar brain function. Therefore brain functions exhibited by one organism likely occur in similar organisms. — hypericin
Maybe you wouldn't call it that. But it is that. — ZzzoneiroCosm
sentience is irrelevant. It completely misses how we actually think about other moral beings. The debate on sentience is post-hoc — Moliere
So when a "machine" expresses I am sentient, yet cannot fulfill its "burden to support that claim", we haven't anymore grounds to doubt it's claim to "sentience", ceteris paribus, as we do to doubt a human who also necessarily fails to meet her burden, no? :monkey: — 180 Proof
All that matters is that they are overwhelmingly similar. — hypericin
The subject of this OP is the news article presented therein, i.e. Lemoine's claims vs. Google's counterclaims regarding LaMDA's sentience and which are more credible. — Baden
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