His job depends on pretending that LLMs can somehow think or reason.
ben_w•1h ago
No, his job depends on LLMs being able to generate revenue.
Quite a lot of humans can generate revenue without thinking or reasoning.
Irregardless, thinking and reasoning may be separate to "consciousness", but nobody really knows because we've made negligible progress on the sufficient and necessary requirements for this whole "consciousness" thing, since at least back when the ancient Greeks were putting coins in corpses' mouths so they could pay the ferryman Kharon to cross the river Styx.
robertheadley•54m ago
There is this misunderstanding that AGI is equal to consciousness. It isn't. I do worry that if we do somehow achieve consciousness in AI, that businesses will be too busy exploiting it, and it would get abused.
robertheadley•53m ago
Also, Anthropic constantly makes bombastic claims and statements just to get press.
allears•1h ago
ben_w•1h ago
Quite a lot of humans can generate revenue without thinking or reasoning.
Irregardless, thinking and reasoning may be separate to "consciousness", but nobody really knows because we've made negligible progress on the sufficient and necessary requirements for this whole "consciousness" thing, since at least back when the ancient Greeks were putting coins in corpses' mouths so they could pay the ferryman Kharon to cross the river Styx.