Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word

Science fiction author Ted Chiang's case against AI consciousness in The Atlantic runs through how a language model actually works. Feed it "The following is a conversation between Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan," and it generates dialogue, but nobody thinks it conjured two conscious Romans. — Read the rest The post Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word appeared first on Boing Boing.