AI believers believe that stringing random words together is equal to consciousness, they absolutely are stupid.

Yeah that was my biggest takeaway is these posts seem to assume sentience in what's little more than a sophisticated "most likely next word" generator. There's tons of cool things that can be done with these new machine learning tools, but they are not sentient, they are not close to sentience and we may never invent artificial sentience.

The one thing we now know for sure is we can damn well convince people of sentience artificially far more easily than I ever suspected

I always assume people like this are suburban white boys with nothing better to bitch about. I would love to see them explain how clanker is a racist term to people that actually experience racism.

I'm a middle-aged white guy and one of my only friends is the young black guy down the street. Having a giggle because I can see the look on his face while I explain all this. "I'm listening and trying to take you seriously while not laughing my ass off in your face."