Notices by Todd Horowitz (toddhorowitz@fediscience.org)

@guncelawits @charliejane @clacke Well obviously you start with a treat-dispensing machine...

@charliejane This is absolutely correct. It's not just that we don't really understand human consciousness enough to replicate it in silico (though that is correct). The bigger point here is about LLMs in particular. They have fooled a lot of people into thinking that we have made a big leap down the path towards machine intelligence/consciousness, but that's an illusion. The major accomplishment of LLMs, in my view, is to invalidate the Turing test.

@charliejane FWIW, buying stuff precedes capitalism by probably millennia.