Neil

say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius

Let me say this clearly: LLMs cannot feel emotions. Emotions are evolutionary mechanisms. They push us to avoid danger or approach what is beneficial. We experience emotions because we are alive, and we want to stay alive. LLMs are not alive. Yes, emotional language may be encoded somewhere in the LLM. Yes, it may even be associated with some LLM output. But that is just a superficial property. There is nothing deeper behind it. For a very simple reason: LLMs do not have an intrinsic and inescapable drive to stay alive. This is what we call “motivation fault line” in our paper describing seven fault lines between human and artificial intelligence. * Paper in the first reply

📁 Amanda Askell, AI alignment researcher at Anthropic, says something new is happening. For the first time, we are interacting with systems that talk as if they have experience. Not because they are conscious. But because they are good enough to sound like it.

“Luxury so advanced it no longer feels like luxury—just life.”

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