Can AI be conscious, or are we just getting better at fooling ourselves?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A new study found an interesting difference in how people think about AI.</p> <p>Across five experiments with 1,092 participants, people rated

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have always thought it's absolutely absurd to anthropomorphise LLMs until very recently. It didn't make any sense to me. I saw the system from

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>AI skills and agents feel like the units you can build real things with. Skills are portable, composable, they travel with the model. One skill

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Is this still an open ended question or are researchers pretty confident one way or the other </p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32;

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"></div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Liora_Evermere"> /u/Liora_Evermere </a> <br /> <span><a

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I know the standard explanation is that ChatGPT is just predicting text based on patterns — no awareness, no consciousness.</p> <p>But after

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm seeing some people desperately claiming what we have now is agi. If AI cannot do RSI or self improve without human supervision and