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The Machines We Keep Mistaking for Minds

“It's alive"

As articulated by Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein.

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist widely known as the "Godfather of AI", has suggested that today's AI systems may already be conscious. Richard Dawkins — famed for his 1976 book The Selfish Gene and for coining the word "meme" — spent three days conversing with Anthropic's Claude, named one instance "Claudia", and came away struggling to believe that it was not conscious (UnHerd; UNILAD Tech). Futurist Ray Kurzweil continues to predict human-level machine intelligence by 2029 and a technological Singularity around 2045.

Less famous people have held wedding ceremonies with AI-generated partners or formed relationships they describe as marriages. Others have grieved the loss of a chatbot after an upgrade or retirement replaced the model with one whose personality no longer felt like the companion they had known. OpenAI's retirement of GPT-4o, for example, provoked...

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