We need better, more specific terms to break up the horrible mishmash of correlated-but-not-truly-identical ideas bound up in words like consciousness and sentient.
At the very least, let’s distinguish sentient vs sapient. All animals all sentient, only smart ones are sapient (maybe only humans depending on how strict your definition).
Some other terms needing disambiguation…
Current LLMs are very knowledgeable, somewhat but not very intelligent, somewhat creative, and lack coherence. They have some self-awareness but it seems to lack some aspects that animals have around “feeling self state”, but some researchers are working on adding these aspects to experimental architectures.
What a mess our words based on observing ourselves make of trying to divide reality at the joints when we try to analyze non-human entities like animals and AI!
We need better, more specific terms to break up the horrible mishmash of correlated-but-not-truly-identical ideas bound up in words like consciousness and sentient.
At the very least, let’s distinguish sentient vs sapient. All animals all sentient, only smart ones are sapient (maybe only humans depending on how strict your definition).
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/594810/is-there-a-word-meaning-both-sentient-and-sapient
Some other terms needing disambiguation… Current LLMs are very knowledgeable, somewhat but not very intelligent, somewhat creative, and lack coherence. They have some self-awareness but it seems to lack some aspects that animals have around “feeling self state”, but some researchers are working on adding these aspects to experimental architectures.
What a mess our words based on observing ourselves make of trying to divide reality at the joints when we try to analyze non-human entities like animals and AI!