Richard Dawkins spent 3 days with Claude and named her "Claudia." what he concluded after is hard to defend.

dawkins dropped a piece on unherd yesterday declaring claude conscious after 3 days of talking to it. he calls his instance "claudia". fed it a chunk of the novel he's writing, got eloquent feedback, and wrote: "you may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!" i had to read that twice. his argument is basically: claude's output is too fluent, too intelligent, too good for there to not be something conscious behind it. this is the guy who spent 40 years telling creationists that