Ted Chiang argues LLMs are attributed consciousness over AlphaFold because they output sentences instead of protein coordinates
AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Steven Sinofsky argues marketing hype has dangerously anthropomorphized software, while OpenAI's roon compares neural networks to linear regression"
Samuel Hammond counter-argues that LLM post-training creates distinct self-models.
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Steven Sinofsky@stevesi·Quote tweetIt is marketing hype that has done society an incredible disservice. Anthropomorphizing software has caused untold confusion and damage.

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
