Sometimes I wonder if we’ve spent too much time as a society wondering if computers can be people
Yeah wondering where humanity begins and computers end is an interesting thought but people think that ChatGPT knows them. That thing is not a person by like any measurement we know of. It doesn’t have opinions. It regurgitates statistically likely word salad and scrapes answers wholesale from Reddit.
Questions about the potential personhood of machines feel kinda stupid now? Like these large language models clearly aren’t people. And to a certain extent, why would you want to make a computer that’s a person with feelings and personal opinions? You’ve made something and trapped it inside of a computer at the whims of programmers. Why? Why do that to something? Even if it was possible. It doesn’t fully seem like it is yet.
The guys who don’t think that computers can be people are usually the unenlightened ones in these stories but frankly I think that my cats are closer to being people than a chatbot is.
Whether or not computers CAN be people is beside the point, LLM chatbots are not and never will be. Billionaires are programming software to manipulate customers.





















