History, repeating itself, here:

"there is NO SUCH THING AS A BLACK SWAN!!"

Right..

THIS AI may never be conscious, but to pretend that it UNIVERSALLY ISN'T POSSIBLE, as the title declares, is intellectual-incompetence.

Universal-declarations are, when careless, idiotic.

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It's an article in "Wired" about a new book by a guy best known for writing about food. Of course it's going to be clickbait. However, I give the Wired staff credit for using stock photos rather than GenAI.

hypesters gotta hype, eh? AI Doomerism is fun to bash. The article speculates upon phenomenology that isn't even technically present in the subject by definition so it is more of rhetoric exercise than credible argument because if we stick strictly to science research then we will end up arguing about definitions of "artificial", "intelligence" and "consciousness" and their explicit realization as technological solutions before getting the topic itself.