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Richard Dawkins Asks ChatGPT If It's Conscious
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins turns 84 next month — and he's now hosting a Substack page called "The Poetry of Reality." Monday's topic? "Are you conscious? A conversation between Dawkins and ChatGPT" Richard Dawkins: As far as I am concerned, you pass the Turing Test f...
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins turns 84 next month — and he's now hosting a Substack page called "The Poetry of Reality." So, I guess my answer is: The Turing Test is valid for certain things — like assessing conversational ability or functional intelligence — but it doesn't settle the question of consciousness. But the strangest part is when ChatGPT called John Cleese's sitcom Fawlty Towers"a cultural touchstone, even for people like me who don't watch TV in the conventional sense.
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