Bullshit Machines

Was this written in 2022?

> One computer scientist speculated that his LLM had attained sentience.

> How did he reach that conclusion? Basically, he asked “Are you conscious?”, the machine responded “Yes”, and that was that.

Oh, come on now. This is referring to Blake Lemoine, and while I doubt his conclusions, he wasn't being as simplistic as all that. He's not completely stupid.

From the same authors of "Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World"[0], Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West.

[0]https://callingbullshit.org/

A 10,000 word website about bullshit machines.

See what they did there ?

Clearly just an anti AI rant packaged up in a fancy suit.