This brilliant essay from Ted Chiang re "AI" sentience bullshit. This right here:

"What would it take to convince me that a computer program is actually conscious and using language the way that people use language? ...Before anyone can credibly claim that they’ve solved an extraordinarily difficult engineering problem, I need to be confident that they have previously solved the many much simpler problems that precede the difficult problem."

#AI #scifi

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?gift=tjkl4dkX2ikVIXb7b8QUnvkarl9Q0mu0tMpAV3zZSko