Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling “Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word." "That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person." "But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”

Why do people think AI is conscious or sentient or whatever? It's because it talks to you. That's the whole reason. No one seems to think the Waymo or Tesla FSD is conscious even though it's just as complex (if not more) and even a remarkably similar architecture

The probability that Claude is conscious is the same as the probability that Anna Karenina is conscious. Zero. Period. But inviting religious scholars to a series of meetings to instil the idea that Claude might be conscious and deserve moral status is not just wrong. If it were merely wrong, we would all be laughing at it. The problem is that it is very dangerous. Because granting AIs moral standing opens the door to trade-offs between human lives and AI “welfare”. Assign each AI even a tiny moral weight and add those weights across enough copies: you can end up justifying the sacrifice of human lives for machines. We should strongly push back against the idea that Claude might be conscious.

holy shit there is nothing that can prepare you for when they cut to the interview

It's uncanny how accurate this is

Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything

Linguistic prescriptivsts make terrible zoologists @Starkey_Comics

Don’t anthropomorphise LLMs, they hate that.

Artificial Intelligence. By Tom Gauld, @tomgauld, tomgauld.com, Used with permission.

The legendary editor Walter Murch cuts on the exact frame an actor blinks, which is the way your brain edits. Editor Walter Murch argued that the best cut often lands on the exact frame an actor blinks, because a blink marks the end of a thought. He laid this out in his book In the Blink of an Eye. Murch treats the blink as the body's own edit point. The idea links human attention to the rhythm of cutting.