this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious
Ted Chiang argues text outputs drive AI consciousness claims, while structurally similar models like AlphaFold and Sora are ignored
Commenters blame marketing hype for the public's anthropomorphization of software.
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