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Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 month ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261005-anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no - podcast

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[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Even people that believe in a mythical creature in the sky aren't dumb enough to believe AI is conscious

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, there are folks that believe that rocks and trees are conscious, why not code?

[–] TrashGoblin@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

I'd actually be willing to entertain the idea of plant and fungal consciousness (of a kind unlike animal consciousness) before I'd believe LLMs to be conscious. Plants, at least, interact with the world around them.

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