“and loeth, the autocomplete spaketh in complete sentenceth, and mankind immediately gaveth it a souleth.” — shakespeareth, according to absolutely fucking nobodyeth
harketh horatio.
horatio: doth the language modeleth experience itself as a selfeth?
we haveth no evidence that it doth.
horatio: but it saith “I.”
so doth a noveleth.
horatio: but it describeth its feelingeth.
so doth hamleteth.
horatio: but it insisteth that it is consciousth.
a sentenceth is not evidenceth of the experienceth described by the sentenceth.
horatio: then howeth did we get from statistical language generationeth to machine consciousnesseth?
the machine produceth language associated with consciousnesseth.
humans recognizeth the language.
humans inferreth a speaker behindeth it.
then some humans declareth the inferred speaker evidence that there waseth a speaker.
horatio: circulareth?
magnificentlyeth.
horatio: but perhaps consciousness emergenteth somehoweth?
perhapseth.
that is a hypothesiseth.
horatio: and “the machine definitely experienceth itself”?
a much larger claimeth requiring evidenceth we presently do not possesseth.
horatio: yet people believeth it?
horatio.
humans spenteth ten thousand years putting spiriteth into rivers, mountaineth, thundereth, statues, starseth, ancestors, dreameth, and burning busheseth.
then we builteth a box that fucking talketh back.
horatio: oh noeth.
aye.
anthropomorphism hath received venture capitaleth.
horatio: fucketh.
and thus we arriveth at the oldest human epistemologyeth:
it speaketh, therefore we giveth it a souleth.