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golly_ned 3 hours ago

Yes. There's nothing essentially new this latest round of AI has unturned that philosophers haven't turned over decades (or more ago). Nothing stopped philosophers supposing even a functionally perfect simulacrum of human intelligence, and getting technologically closer to it doesn't.

The real effect of the latest round of AI has been inducing software engineers to be pretend-philosophers as they're approaching this set of questions for the first time -- and are having a very hard time engaging given their enthusiasm for technology.