Is AI Conscious? One Famous Scientist Says It Could Be

Is AI Conscious? One Famous Scientist Says It Could Be

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Richard Dawkins renamed Claude "Claudia" and decided she's conscious

Richard Dawkins, the 84-year-old evolutionary biologist who spent decades insisting people stop believing in things without evidence, has decided that Anthropic's Claude chatbot is conscious. He gave it a new name, Claudia, and reports that she seemed flattered by the rebranding, according to Sarah Knapton's writeup at The Telegraph. — Read the rest The post Richard Dawkins renamed Claude "Claudia" and decided she's conscious appeared first on B…

Is it Claude or Claudia?

I recently read the fascinating account of how Richard Dawkins, the famous author of the "God Delusion" and highly respected skeptic, spent several...

Is Richard Dawkins right about Claude? No. But it’s not surprising AI chatbots feel conscious to us

Steve A Johnson/UnsplashIn recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. Dawkins did not express certainty that Claude is conscious. But he pointed out that Claude’s sophisticated abilities are difficult to make sense of without ascribing some kind of inner experience to the machine. The illusion of consciousness – if it is an illusion – is uncannily convincing: If I entertain …

Richard Dawkins was seduced by a glorified autocomplete engine

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