RT @sfiscience@twitter.com
"[#LaMDA] processes the text as you're interacting with it. But when you stop interacting with it, it doesn't remember the interaction. I don't think you can have #sentience, without memory. You can't have any sense of self without #memory."
- SFI's @MelMitchell1@twitter.com talks to @MSNBC@twitter.com https://twitter.com/MelMitchell1/status/1537836162794016769
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1537921940429475841
I always thought that a disease like Alzheimer's serves as a definitive proof of our mortality — since if our memory is gone, then so are we, even if alive — but not that it fully disables *sentience*. I'm not sure I agree, since sentience can be intermittent and transient...