The point their engineer was trying to make, is that sentience is hard to define and if we continue on our current path there are some things we need to consider in the future - things the AI itself is already bringing up. I'll let the old Star Trek writers make that point for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuQRCG_sUw. I don't think Google fired him over the sentience conjecture, but for reveling just how far along they are. Imagine how many jobs this could replace. Don't look at in isolation either, imagine it in use with projects like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_LD3R_Ygs, or this: https://misorobotics.com/flippy-2/. True sentience may seem impossible, but we can't assume that these projects will always be implemented on traditional hardware.
The point their engineer was trying to make, is that sentience is hard to define and if we continue on our current path there are some things we need to consider in the future - things the AI itself is already bringing up. I'll let the old Star Trek writers make that point for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuQRCG_sUw. I don't think Google fired him over the sentience conjecture, but for reveling just how far along they are. Imagine how many jobs this could replace. Don't look at in isolation either, imagine it in use with projects like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_LD3R_Ygs, or this: https://misorobotics.com/flippy-2/. True sentience may seem impossible, but we can't assume that these projects will always be implemented on traditional hardware.
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