Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by Holly Baxter
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news-humanize-chatbot-conscious-b2963788.html
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