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AI Community Derides Consciousness Claims, Compares to Eugenics

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Blake Lemoine, who previously claimed a Google LLM chatbot was conscious, is now being derided by segments of the AI community. The author draws a parallel between the current willingness to entertain such ideas and historical eugenicist arguments based on physical measurements. AI

RANK_REASON The item discusses a fringe opinion about AI consciousness and compares it to eugenics, lacking substantive new information or a clear event.

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AI Community Derides Consciousness Claims, Compares to Eugenics

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Blake Lemoine back in 22 claimed the Google LLM chatbot prototype he was tinkering with was conscious, and was rightly widely derided by an "AI" community large

    Blake Lemoine back in 22 claimed the Google LLM chatbot prototype he was tinkering with was conscious, and was rightly widely derided by an "AI" community large segments of which now seem willing to entertain the idea to various degrees. We should recognise their argument for the…

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