@theverge Again, for the folks in the back:

**The head of the "safe AI" company's societal impacts team** is claiming their LLM technology is empathetic, can give advice, and can think.

Is Deep Ganguli confused? Is he deluded? Is he in a tech bubble so bubbly he has lost touch with basic facts?

I'm serious. This is not a joke! Why do outlets like The Verge not ask basic follow-up questions like, oh I dunno: “Why do you claim a software algorithm is empathetic, can give advice, and can think?”