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No, Claude Is Not Conscious: Dawkins, AI, and the Train Illusion

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Why Dawkins mistook Claude’s fluent imitation for consciousness, and why the Turing Test still cannot prove subjective experience. Really.

In 1895 the Lumière brothers shot a 50-second silent documentary. It famously captured a steam locomotive pulling into a station. Titled “L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat“, it was first shown to the public in January 1896 in Lyon. A rather popular story is that when the film was first shown, the audience was … Read more

What will AI really do for you? – What do the experts say?

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Early versions of AI are here and these instances are becoming very widely available. Familiar examples include ChatGPT and Copilot. Ah but wait, those are all just one specific category of AI. As I’m sure you appreciate, the scope for using it is actually vast and includes a great deal more… Literally anything involving vast … Read more

The Tesla Optimus Robot Scam

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Earlier this month Tesla ran an amazing demonstration of its Optimus robots. They danced, they played games, they poured drinks. Amazing stuff. This is a Tesla tannoy that they are turning to AI/Robotics as their next big thing, and so every October they have run an AI Day which this year was called “We Robot”. … Read more

Has a Google AI really become Self-Aware?

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LaMDA

You might perhaps have seen the news that a Google Engineer has become convinced that an artificial intelligence that they created has become ‘sentient’ (self-aware). Is this true, has this AI called LaMDA really become self-aware? Short answer – no. Slightly longer answer – Seriously, just no. So what is going on here, what has … Read more