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“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.” (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by RedStrider@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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One of the stupidest things I've heard.

I also would like to attach the bluesky repost I found this from:

@leyawn.bsky.social‬ says: “is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me” https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3lnldekgtik27

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, and in the NYT no less. This will make a lot of people a lot more stupid. I guess the AI grift needs to go on for a while longer.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago

I really wonder what's going on in the editors minds here.

The entire premise of the article is "All experts say no, but I think yes" - why would anyone about any topic publish this? If it would be an actual debate, maybe some contrarian but actual experts arguing in favor of sentience, you could get into an argument here. But this article is blatant science denial. Climate change deniers and antivaxxers use the exact same approach "facts say X, but my feelings say Y".