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.

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.

    • primbin@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

      • SlikPikker@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year 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.