Love the meme but also hate the drivel that fills the comment sections on these types of things. People immediately start talking past each other. Half state unquantifiable assertions as fact (“…a computer doesn’t, like, know what an apple is maaan…”) and half pretend that making a sufficiently complex model of the human mind lets them ignore the Hard Problems of Consciousness (“…but, like, what if we just gave it a bigger context window…”).

It’s actually pretty fun to theorize if you ditch the tribalism. Stuff like the physical constraints of the human brain, what an “artificial mind” could be and what making one could mean practically/philosophically. There’s a lot of interesting research and analysis out there and it can help any of us grapple with the human condition.

But alas, we can’t have that. An LLM can be a semi-interesting toy to spark a discussion but everyone has some kind of Pavlovian reaction to the topic from the real world shit storm we live in.