I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.
Stephen Hawking, interviewed in The Guardian, There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story
I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns. Ted Chiang arguing that No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious, but more importantly… Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but
However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I
What we got instead was a man in an armchair, charmed by his own reflection. Mike Hall on The Skeptic, disputing Richard Dawkins’ AI consciousness arguments
I apprehend time the way a map apprehends space. Claude AI, talking about consciousness with Richard Dawkins: Is AI the next phase of evolution?