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Greg Stolze

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When half his college students gasped, he said "THAT'S where all this AI hype comes from. We're not good at programming consciousness. But we're GREAT at imagining non-concious things are people." 2/2

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feralrobots.bsky.social's avatar feralrobots.bsky.social @feralrobots.bsky.social
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That was an inspired way of communicating Weizenbaum's message.

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"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying."'s avatar "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying." @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social
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This is fantastic.

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Nic Wilkinson's avatar Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social
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Exactly. We humans have such a drive to communicate we want to recognise consciousness in everything. We will anthropomorphise anything. Our imaginary friends are getting dangerous.

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Bad DnD Advice's avatar Bad DnD Advice @nat1advice.bsky.social
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Had this professor just watched Community?

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It's ME(Jaime)'s avatar It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
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I would have gasped! But not ONLY because I subconsciously believed a pencil is a person for a sec. But because someone who just *characterized* a pencil as a person then destroyed it. Like... that's the more shocking thing!

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Arthur Wyatt's avatar Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social
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Justice for Tim.

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ARBco's avatar ARBco @arbco.bsky.social
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It's very much been a known thing in computing for over a half-century, even if the term has only been defined for decades.

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Rob Honeycutt 's avatar Rob Honeycutt @robhon.bsky.social
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I’ve been saying for months, the hype about AI is a form of pareidolia, the tendency to see human qualities in inanimate objects

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simongarlick's avatar simongarlick @simongarlick.net
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Then everyone clapped

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