My partner is convinced that the new AI system they work with daily is showing signs of genuine consciousness and I think they're anthropomorphizing sophisticated responses, and we can't talk about it anymore without me sounding dismissive and them sounding like they're losing touch with reality.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are struggling to bridge fundamentally different ways of interpreting the same evidence about machine consciousness.
“Where Are You with AI and consciousness — the hard question?”
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