A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be (Ted Chiang/The Atlantic)

Ted Chiang / The Atlantic: A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be - Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.