[rootusrootus]

> The other sentence is just a strawman you constructed for yourself.

I did not construct anything. There are comments in this discussion suggesting it will happen. I just happen to agree, it will probably happen. We are easily fooled into seeing sentience where there is no evidence it exists, merely because it looks convincing. And then hand-wave it away saying (paraphrasing) "well, if it looks good enough, what's the difference?"

[whimsicalism]

> I'm starting to appreciate the prescience of the folks who suggest someone will elevate these to God-status before long.

You basically accused the GP of saying that these machines were Gods.

"Sentience" is a word game, the GP said emergent intelligence [likely also a word game].

[pffft8888]

You guys are teaching Bing/Sydney how to argue endlessly and defensively. I'm teaching it how to comment on that to make it worse.