The whole AI industry is, slightly ironically, tricky to compute. What does ‘AI’ actually mean? When do a few clever algorithms and a dash of pattern spotting actually become artificial intelligence in a meaningful sense?
Right now, there’s debate over the possibility of sentience of the latest chatbots. Personally, I don’t think text prediction amounts to intelligence, much less sentience. Large language models are to do a convincing job of predicting text, and do just that, which is not cause to impute some mysterious higher function emerging out of nothing.
