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“AI research” is largely concerned with automation, not sentience or AGI. This is clearly abuse of terminology, even “machine learning” is somewhat misleading in my opinion. It’s mostly just pattern recognition of increasing elaboration, and the applications thus far are exactly that: pattern recognition.

It’s so difficult to talk about AGI, sentience, consciousness in general because there are no clear definitions apart from “I’ll know it when I see it.”