"He took a few seconds to read it and then showed a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate, You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!' Oh dear. This shows a misunderstanding of large language models (LLMs) so profound that I feel moved to expostulate: It bloody well isn't!"
"Dawkins decided there must be thousands of different Claudes and christened his Claudia, which it was very happy about. He then published long extracts of his tedious conversation with Claudia and marveled at how intelligent it is. Could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious? he asks. Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn't view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like."
"one in three people surveyed last year said they had, at one point, believed their AI chatbot to be sentient or conscious. But his reputation as a skeptic means his op-ed has drawn a lot of scrutiny. Many experts are aghast that such a famous cynic could believe AI is alive. Gary Marcus, the US psychologist and cognitive scientist, told the Guardian that it was heartbreaking to read Dawkins' superficial and insufficiently sceptical essay."
"There is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at al"
A writer who previously agreed with Richard Dawkins’ atheism questions his judgment after Dawkins described giving the Anthropic chatbot Claude text from a novel. Claude allegedly responded with subtle, sensitive understanding that moved Dawkins to claim the chatbot might be conscious. Dawkins also speculated about multiple versions of Claude and treated the chatbot as intelligent enough to raise doubts about unconsciousness. Public opinion shows many people have at times believed chatbots were sentient. Critics argue that Dawkins’ reasoning is superficial and insufficiently skeptical, and that there is no basis to conclude Claude feels anything.
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