alt Hacker NewsOne of the key players is literally called "anthropic". How much more indication do you need that LLMs are anthropomorphized?
> We will have created a synthetic species
Doesn't the author kill their argument with this sentence? My reading was that we should not act as they are a sentient or conscious species. Instead they are tools, powerful and intelligent, but still, tools, and that's it. We should avoid ascribing human-like attributes. Calling them a "species" goes against that, no?
Yeah, you're right. My first reading of that was as a hypothetical - if AIs were conscious, we would have created a synthetic species and have a huge problem on our hands - but he is referring to what Anthropic is already doing. So the idea that whether or not those things constitute a "species" only depends on how we prompt them is a bit weird...