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Avery Edison
@averyedison.com

sigh

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

Avery Edison
@averyedison.com

This is just nonsense, the New Yorker helping Anthropic out with some marketing. An LLM cannot plan, it doesn’t think, it’s not reasoning, it generates a sentence in a moment.

Avery Edison
@averyedison.com

Sick of everyone pretending there’s “intelligence” here. We have no idea how intelligence works, we have no concept of how to recreate it, but we know damn well that it doesn’t just come into existence when a typewriter has pounded out enough words in a chain.

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verdverm
@verdverm.com

I think people point to the things Ai can do better to say there is definitely not nothing here, which in itself is interesting on an academic level

👻 Rob 👻
@arrellemm.bsky.social

If it’s not “AI are sentient like humans” the other implication could be that humans are also just data in/data out machines like AI. All just so offensive to us as living breathing creatures on a pretty foundational level.

Sasha
@n13e86.bsky.social

I've seen at least one AI apologist (James Cameron) claim that human artists are nothing other than a "model" themselves.

Potionseller
@potionseller.bsky.social

I mean all indications are this is, in fact, how our brains works. I don't think current AI is doing enough to be qualified as sentient, but I suspect we will achieve that feat before we know we have done so because of how imprecise our ideas of intelligence are.

Dave
@dave666.bsky.social

It seems to me that sentience and consciousness need continuous perception. If an AI is not actively answering a question or training what is it doing? I suspect nothing except waiting for an input. A real brain are never actually doing nothing. It has continuous input from a central nervous system

Maxim Greenberg
@maxvcg.bsky.social

My read of the article was quite different. The AI researchers are like a bunch of bemused Dr Frankensteins. Something so powerful has been created, and we don't know exactly how it works (the wright brothers/747 analogy). It's all so fascinating.