This thread was started to consider
verbal output of machines. If it strays, that's OK, but let's keep in mind its reason for being. We do verbal.
In general order of reply:
John Isbell: Google's suspension of that guy looks like a corporate move to stop people from laughing or screaming at them. Reputation! Do Not embarrass the firm! The truth about that "sentience" will stay dark for some time. "Sentience" is a word for the "hard question" of "what is consciousness?" Obviously, space, as such, can support analog consciousness under the right conditions. Blah-blah, a million things to say but not here.
Rogerbob: Exactly. Well put.
WTC: Thank you, I haven't gone back to that piece yet.
John I: Neither Turing nor Jacobi was or is digital. Neither wrote poetry, songs, dystopian stories, or other literature that I know of.
Allen Tice: Exactly. Well put.
Rogerbob: I think a
possibly "sentient" artificial intelligence would "want" to compose about a human experience only if prompted or if programmed to sequence words that a human might encounter.
Allen Tice: Ditto.
Rogerbob: Calculating the millionth of pi digit is child's play in base eight. Spigot programs (
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Spigot_algorithm) for that
do not preserve the intervening digits, are fairly fast, and that's all I know. I won't guess what an AI would "enjoy". The other day I ran an online calculus integration for 80x dx between 50 and 60. Happened in no time. Lots of concluding zeroes. ooooo! That looked like real fun to me, but I'm analog. No pleasure waves from my computer. Yet.
John I: I have owned a cat and watched a cat torture a mouse. I'd unplug that feline promptly if it showed up.
Jim: What you say? Anyway, Gautama is supposed to have stated that humans are "name" and "form", both temporary. I might add that they have something else that might be called "smell" that seems as intrinsic as form. I don't mean olfactory odor. This can be faked by online trappers at the FBI and elsewhere, but it exists. AIs: do they have "smell"? I've not verified any. Watch out for phony phish "smell".
Rogerbob: Agreed. As to the zombie thing, we have to be careful of a solipsistic fallacy. That way lies delusion and bad feedback.
Mark: I will read it. Have to do shopping now.