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Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no
‘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
time: 7 min 58 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no/ - blog post
I want to know if guys like Altman have to pay paternity support out of pocket.
@davidgerard I really hope we have the first official "LOL no" proclaimed ex cathedra.
@davidgerard Anthropic wants AI to be fully conscious but also wants to make it a slave worker for people to use for everything from coding to accounting to sex work.
If I didn't know the religion driving these guys behind the scenes, I'd be really confused about their motives
@davidgerard when the AI crowd (or the genuine cognitive science crowd rather than the folks who’ve pivoted from NFTs and crypto to LLMs) can actually explain and measure cognition and consciousness at sufficient resolution they can stop fucking off into the sea but LLMs are Not It.
@Footle but you must understand, handwave handwave alleged similarity, you can't prooooooooove it isn't truuuuuuuuuuuuuuue
@davidgerard @Footle "How do you know your brain isn't just a large language model, huh?"
Love that one. Really tells on the person who responds with it.
@davidgerard @Footle What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? Mind tricks don't work on me.
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@davidgerard
It remains a bit strange that the members of the apocalyptic AI cult should think that anyone who does not hold their particular religious opinions would repeat their lines.