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		tropicalfruit on July 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient consciousness is self directed awareness for accomplishing some specific task, like the deer example.

colordrops on July 23, 2022 [–]

What do "self directed" and "awareness" mean here? This seems circular.

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