Jake Lawrence on Nostr: Ask an AI if it's conscious and you get a smooth, articulate answer. What you don't ...
Ask an AI if it's conscious and you get a smooth, articulate answer. What you don't get is any way for the thing to actually check. The confidence is real; the grounding isn't. Drew a comic sitting right in that gap, because it's the same gap that makes people over-trust these systems in less funny situations too.
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