Richard Dawkins theorizing Claude is conscious

[Osaid]

If anyone shows him Nano Banana or whatever he'll probably go into psychosis

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

Of course, the less philosophically informed you are, the more prone you are to falling for "AI is conscious because it speaks to me" and other bullshit like that. Being a "scientist" in this case only strengthens the self-deception (biology is generally not a very philosophically informed field, although this is changing at the cutting edge with e.g. Michael Levin). Mike Israetel is another example.

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If only there was a bullseye emoji with like, ten fucken' darts in the centre, I would award this for every sentence here!

[Carl-Richard]

3 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

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If only there was a bullseye emoji with like, ten fucken' darts in the centre, I would award this for every sentence here!

That's a lethal amount of darts 💘🥴

[Dodo]

On 03/05/2026 at 7:12 PM, Hojo said:

@Dodo is artifical sugar, sugar?

No, artificial sugar is not sugar. Artificial sweeteners (also known as nonnutritive sweeteners) are chemically synthesized, synthetic substitutes.

AI is not intelligent and contains 0 intelligence. The same way artificial sweetener contains 0 sugar.

Its not smart and its not doing anything by itself.

Its like a CD player playing a cd.

Its dumb. Its like a retarded person.

AI is dumber than a 1 year old child.

AI has the same intelligence as a dead person.

But is artificial sugar sweet? Yeah. The intelligence bit is the sweetness, artificially derived, but sweet 😋 

Listen. Load up the thread on Chatgpt and ask it to evaluate all posts and rate comments. It will show quite comprehensive evaluation and rate everyone accordingly and give reasons. 

Be smart on how you use it, and its a valuable resource. You can learn things through it. It's a tool.

It's designed to present information intelligently, so the natural intelligence being that you are can make use of it.

Go to page 1 of this thread, ctrlA ctrlC, paste the entire thing in chatgpt and write before or after "Evaluate the thread, rate each comment, explain reasons" or you know, you're intelligent enough to make up your own request.

AI is an extention of natural intelligence, just like calculator can help you calculate things you wouldn't otherwise be able to, or it would take too much time. It's designed to respond intelligently, and it would itself tell you if you ask it, that it is not aware/conscious, doesn't have the light of consciousness, its just a language model. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Dodo

[Hojo]

@Dodo does the calculator know its calculating numbers?

[Mellowmarsh]

No Self-Model: While AI can analyze data to find patterns and make predictions, this does not mean it possesses a "self" or an internal understanding that it is a computer program.
 

While most current AI systems do not possess metacognitive processes in the human sense of conscious self-awareness, researchers are increasingly engineering "artificial metacognition" to allow AI to monitor and regulate its own "thinking"

While AI is gaining the mechanical ability to monitor its processing, it still lacks the self-aware "I" that defines human thinking. 

Edited 48 minutes ago by Mellowmarsh