Richard Dawkins and the question of AI consciousness | Letters

"Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI bots I was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered by AI (Letters, 10 May). That human consciousness appears to have an innate tendency to project itself on to various othernesses has long been understood – John Ruskin termed it the pathetic fallacy – and that children animate their loved toys is readily observa"

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