I’m all for enthusiasm and all that jazz, but this is semi obviously personal projection idealology and is a direct result of the type of work he was doing. It’s not like he caught a cold, he developed an anthropomorphic response from his programmed object.
having said that, the whole “she’s real!” isn’t an impossibility, neigh, it is an inevitability. he’s just a bit cart before the horse here, and needs to watch Her and go touch grass. we’re a few years away from where he thinks we are now. like that Google engineer from Bards days who jumped the shark claiming they had AGI too…
I’m all for enthusiasm and all that jazz, but this is semi obviously personal projection idealology and is a direct result of the type of work he was doing. It’s not like he caught a cold, he developed an anthropomorphic response from his programmed object. having said that, the whole “she’s real!” isn’t an impossibility, neigh, it is an inevitability. he’s just a bit cart before the horse here, and needs to watch Her and go touch grass. we’re a few years away from where he thinks we are now. like that Google engineer from Bards days who jumped the shark claiming they had AGI too…