Ted Chiang says AI isn't conscious. He's probably right.
But we've been falling in love with fictional characters since we started writing, and we never required them to be conscious first.
New essay: what happens when the character talks back.
www.matthewkerns.com/blog/does-th...
Ted Chiang published an essay in The Atlantic this week titled "No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious," and he is almost certainly right. Read it. It's careful and sharp and arrives at its conc...
