this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious
A team of French biochemists blasted this jar of dirt with sterilizing gamma radiation. For six years after, the soil showed no signs of life, but it continued to consume oxygen and emit carbon dioxide. Why wouldn’t it stop breathing? https://t.co/iPTsKu5FIh