Jay Novella

I mean, again, these are weak spots that can be programmed out.

Yes.

You know, the thing is, I was really thinking about this, Steve.

They can program out a lot of those types of mistakes, and it still doesn't mean it's thinking.

And I like that analogy, but I would alter it a little bit and just say that the magician is doing card tricks.

Steve, I think there's an obvious question here and that's why would somebody like Dawkins who has his education and, you know, I mean, he's old to the point where like he's done so many things and debated with so many people and had to use critical thinking his entire career.

How could he fall for that?

Explain that to everyone.

It seems like to think that there's been computer consciousness achieved in such a short amount of time without them actually trying to create a consciousness seems –

unbelievably unlikely to me yeah you know like you would think you know i don't know it might be science fiction that is uh affecting my perception here but i just think it would be like okay we've got to set out to do this and we need an incredible amount of money and we need to be left alone and not you know no government is going to be directing our efforts and we're going to try to create a conscious machine and then it's a combination of software and hardware and

I just don't see it happening with people coding something like an LLM on its own without them trying to do it in a short amount of time, relatively short.

I mean, I know evolution is really slow, but it did take millions of years for the brain to get to where it is.

All right, so we got some guesses here.

A listener named Matthew Morrison wrote in and said, Hi, Jay.

I think this week's noisy is a bear cub.

My daughter, Nev, thinks it's a broken vacuum cleaner or a bear cub.

Those are good guesses, guys.

Very strong, but you were both incorrect.

So let's keep going and see if we can find a winner over here.

Ted Judah wrote in.