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Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI":
"Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not there."
theatlantic.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - The Atlantic
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.