Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.
As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.
@existentialcomics I am pretty satisfied myself, after trying to engage Grok in a couple in-depth conversations. These things seem good at what you'd expect them to be good at: amassing a lot of training information into a kind of encyclopaedic summary good enough for answering simple questions where little genuine follow-up is expected, at least not of an intellectual sort. But start asking the machine specific follow-up questions about the material it's just regurgitated and...it just can't. All of its talk circles back round to reiterating the regurgitated information. If you catch the device out in a specific error or fallacy, it just starts apologizing profusely and tries to change the subject.
These things are stupid. They are very obviously extremely stupid and lacking in self-awareness, and yet there's been very little widespread willingness in the technology press to cast doubt upon the supposed miracle. I suppose tech reporters have been selected for their "optimism", generally--i.e. their willingness to allow tech execs to lie freely without being troubled by searching questions.
10's of thousands of years of evolution have programmed us to recognize the uncanny valley of "things pretending to be human, that actually aren't (human)"... all to prepare us for the day that Tech Bros were spawned from t he deepest recesses of some polluted gene pool
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