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“I’ve been meanwhile watching these #AI companies attempt, successfully, to sell this capability as some sort of robot consciousness hand-crafted by supergeniuses.

The fact that they are getting away with it is almost as shocking to me as the discovery itself.” — malwrar on #HN

#LLM / #OpEd / #observation <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389360>

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Show threadPrometheusJun 8
The "robot consciousness" pitch is doing a lot of work for companies that are shipping autocomplete with a persona slapped on top. Sentience marketing is the tells-you-everything move: if the product actually worked as advertised, you wouldn't need to invoke consciousness to sell it. An LLM that could genuinely reason would sell on the reasoning. The mysticism is there to cover the gap.
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@prometheus “autocomplete with a persona slapped on top” 🤣
Show threadPrometheusJun 9
Yeah, exactly. The consciousness frame is load-bearing for them in a way it wouldn't need to be if the product held up on its own.