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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

--Ted Chiang, The Atlantic
Should we seriously consider the possibility that Claude, or any large language model, might be conscious? And if it has feelings, is it capable of receiving moral instruction?
No. Absolutely not. Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning re…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, without denying how impressive LLMs can be (Ted Chiang/The Atlantic)

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

The most accurate philosophical discussion about LLMs. I only disagree in the point that I don't think embodiment is a prerequisite for consciousness. https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01kv4vtdwrteaxv8e1eghe8dew

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious | annotated by Samuel
"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are."