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> I am wholly amused how everyone got on that dude from Google that accused the AI of being sentient and Google about not caring, and now you have huge names in the tech industry kinda drooling over this with what I believe to be the same passion.

Is it strange? Someone can be extremely impressed with how a Boston Dynamic robot moves, while also being entirely unconvinced by claims that the lifelike movement is a sign of sentience.

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> while also being entirely unconvinced by claims that the lifelike movement is a sign of sentience.

Well, would one suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Locomotion of being sentient?

> Someone can be extremely impressed with how a Boston Dynamic robot moves, while also being entirely unconvinced by claims that the lifelike movement is a sign of sentience.

Especially as those devices are all coded in a traditional manner, with no ML or NNs at all.

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