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Stephen Ladyman suggests a question to ask artificial intelligence systems, while John van Someren is suspicious of advice he got from the AI assistant ClaudeThere is a test that Prof Richard Dawkins might use to determine if artificial intelligence systems are conscious (Letters, 15 May). Ask them to name the best song.AI systems will tell […]
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Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI botsI was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered by AI (Letters, 10 May). That human consciousness appears to have an innate tendency to project itself on
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Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-likeAre you there God? It’s me, Arwa. I’ll be quite honest, I’m afraid I’ve never been a believer. I agreed wholeheartedly with Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous atheist, when he
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Dr Simon Nieder responds to Richard Dawkins’ encounters with a chatbotRichard Dawkins’ reflections on AI consciousness are striking – not because they show that machines have crossed some hidden threshold into inner life, but because they reveal how readily we can be persuaded that they have (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it
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Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthroughThe otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May). Such bots are initially geared
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