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It's an interesting question, and I'm sure there are useful things to learn from it, but the focus on whether AI is "alive" ruins the article. In this sentence:

> Many people believe LLMs are just equations, mechanically churning through statistically derived calculations.

Those people would be factually correct, as that is exactly what an LLM is. Whether that implies that they should have some kind of "rights" is irrelevant to this conversation, I don't know why the article keeps talking about it.

It all feels very much like "well there's this obvious explanation... or maybe we have created AGI and it's trying to communicate!" Not useful.