Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Conscious

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There’s a good article by Ted Chiang in The Atlantic, about what artificial intelligence, especially in the form of Large Language Models, is and is not. In particular, he maintains that it isn’t conscious, and cannot be a moral agent, contrary to the impressions which an AI’s verbal output may create.

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