A common argument from AI stans is basically mysticism: “we don’t really know how it works therefore it must be alive and have a soul”.

Dude, first of all we know how it works, human beings created every step of LLMs, and the didn’t imbue it with life like a golem, it’s just applied statistics.

Secondly just because you personally find it mysterious and unknowable doesn’t mean it’s magic.

@thomasfuchs The dangerous thing to me is that it’s only two brain cells away to go from “I don’t understand it so it’s alive” to “I don’t understand it so it’s GOD”…like we humans have treated everything we didn’t understand for millennia.

The TESCREAL shitheads behind the “AGI” movement certainly want to push us that way.