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Bob Novella

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1417 total appearances

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

My mom's on that.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

But Steve, it was a common general belief that once you cross that threshold, you could say it's conscious in a way.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Which are all over the internet, which is its training data.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

A good one, too.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

So what about the idea, when discussing this in the past, the idea that, you know, the qualia, the distinction between memory and current reality is that, so you wouldn't confuse a real memory with, I mean, something that was happening now, confusing that with a memory of previous now, right?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Exactly, exactly.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

And to Jay's point, there is this idea of consciousness being an emergent phenomenon when you've got...

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

When you put certain pieces together in a certain way, it could evolve in a way that would be completely unpredictable.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

And we see emergent phenomena throughout nature.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

But you need the reasonable components put together in a way that would make sense that consciousness could even exist.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

And those components are not there with LLMs.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

They're not there.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Ooh.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Remember that?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Oh, my God, yeah.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

I thought you were going to talk about the one earlier where we did a pirate theme that I helped decorate.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

That was another one.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Yeah, that was another one.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Okay, yeah, two awesome ones.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

Oh, yeah, Under the Sea or something.