New AI hype "Our language models are so 'conscious' we need to give them rights"

7 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by bryanrasmussen

7 Comments

bonoboTP

10 hours ago

I doubt much good will come from this thread. It's the daily rehash of "AI yay or nay? Gary Marcus yay or nay? Discuss!"

allears

10 hours ago

You're right and I bit. I'll try to hold back next time. And there will be a next time.

crazygringo

10 hours ago

> but I think it is better to look at what is happening from the perspective of of commerce. Anthropic is a business... I suspect the real move here is simply, as it so often is, to hype the product — basically by saying, hey, look at how smart our product is, it’s so smart we need to give it rights.

Exactly this. It's not true, but it's a clever marketing move.

WastedCucumber

10 hours ago

Well it's certainly a marketing move. I'm not convinced that it's clever.

allears

10 hours ago

He's right, but since he's Gary Marcus, he's totally biased, so I don't bother to read his rants.

dmitrygr

10 hours ago

They will do anything and say anything to keep the grift going