Just a couple years ago, numerous people (including here) were ridiculing Blake Lemoine, the fired Google AI engineer, for seeing "sentience" in an LLM. Now it seems nearly everyone has become Blake Lemoine.

It's fascinating to observe how prone to pareidolia we are. Our wetware pattern matchers are ready to fire off positive signals at the first sign of anything even slightly approaching "human", whether it's faces or -- more recently -- language. These primitive ape brains are fooling us into thinking we're talking to an "intelligence".