[fnordpiglet]

That’s if you believe what’s magical is the computer is actually literally thinking and is a little human stuffed in a box. What’s magical is we’ve cracked NLP -and- abductive reasoning on a Turing machine. For those who have the capacity to dream the fact ELIZA wasn’t a person in a box didn’t break anything of the magic but inspired them with the fact that this mess of wires and cores could perform complex workflows of logic, not merely compute trigonometric functions. It could process text in protocols. It’s what inspired people to go forth and do things like email, phone, ytalk, irc, gopher, etc.

If your dreams begin and end with making a box with a person inside that’s the point I made. You can make a person in a box in 9 months, that’s not interesting or cool. What we can build with an LLM and genai in general is MUCH MUCH cooler than a metal baby. (And I think a conscious mind we control and manufacture but don’t recognize the rights of is a scarier horror movie than all the AI feat movies ever made put together, fwiw, so I’m glad your dreams were broken)