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   We can't even define consciousness in humans. That hasn't stopped claims that AI has it
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               claim favorite foods, ask follow-up questions as though curious, and perform empathy. Hundreds of millions of people are interacting daily with software deliberately shaped to feel like a person, in an industry where engagement is the gold standard.
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               When an AI fabricates information, we call it a "hallucination," a word that in humans describes a conscious experience of losing a grip on reality.
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               A better word for what these systems do when they make 
things up would be "
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               ," which describes a behavior, not an experience, or “
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               compressed artifacts
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               ," which mimics the language for other technology. But "hallucinate" already won the branding war, and the 
framing it carries is doing real work on how people think about these tools.
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               The mirror's edge
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               Cognitive scientists have a name for this tendency to see minds where there are none.
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               Brains are not computers. So much of what makes us conscious appears to be tied up in the wet, messy experience of being a body moving through the world that a simulation simply cannot replicate. A simulation of digestion does not digest anything. A simulation of consciousness, by this logic, does not experience anything either.
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they are lonely ones in rooms full of venture capital.
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much.
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