i don’t even understand why it’s worth discussing in the first place. “can autocomplete feel?” “should compilers form unions?” “should i let numpy rest on weekends?”

wake me up when what the marketers call “ai” becomes more than just matrix multiplication in a loop.

I think there’s a useful discussion for why these technologies can be effective at getting people to connect with them emotionally, but they themselves don’t experience emotions any more than a fictional character in a book experiences emotion.

Our mental model of them can, but the physical representation is just words. In the book I’m reading there was a brutal torture scene. I felt bad for the character, but if there was an actual being experiencing that kind of torment, making and reading the book would be horrendously unethical.

Nobody forced it on anybody. My work uses gdocs, I just never turned Gemini on. Easy.