"I can't believe you took all my money just to sit in the back and stroke Willy all day!"

Actually, I would put money in, because there's big profits to be had once the bakery customers develop a psychological dependence on Willy. I'd be a little nervous about buying now, because they seem to be lying a lot about Willy, but maybe they've just gotta do that to get people in the mindset of using Willy, like maybe it makes more sense if they aren't fooling investors but fooling customers or just generating attention.

Also, people are getting radicalized against us, especially lonely people, so it'd be quite beneficial if we route them into having friendships with Willy to make them forget about how terrible their lives are, make them become totally unwilling to form real relationships with people, and too mentally ill to actually learn stuff about the world.

Willy is a lot easier to control then a social media environment too, but Willy would also be incredibly good at getting into those and pretending to be real people once Willy gets good enough.

Willy is also really good at showing people ads by recommending them certain products, apps, or places to go, without them realizing they're seeing an ad, because it feels conversational, like a friend recommending something.

(this is a thought experiment, idk what's going on in their heads)

*fewer. You can't have half a dependency

I think we don't understand intelligence and we absolutely could create a sentient machine. LLM's ain't it though

The meat does the thinking.

Then why continue if it's possible? Unless you are ok with slavery.

I mean, sure consciousness is (probably) a physical process, so like any other process we should be able to replicate it with some sort of machine.

...but I really really really doubt that machine is going to be a plain old Turing machine.

What is it, then? And while you're there, what is non artificial consciousness?

I've thought more about the dangers of artificial consciousness than you would expect.

Yeah, the user didn't give a time limit.
They could have just run it slow.