I think there’s a useful discussion for why these technologies can be effective at getting people to connect with them emotionally, but they themselves don’t experience emotions any more than a fictional character in a book experiences emotion.

Our mental model of them can, but the physical representation is just words. In the book I’m reading there was a brutal torture scene. I felt bad for the character, but if there was an actual being experiencing that kind of torment, making and reading the book would be horrendously unethical.

i don’t even understand why it’s worth discussing in the first place. “can autocomplete feel?” “should compilers form unions?” “should i let numpy rest on weekends?”

wake me up when what the marketers call “ai” becomes more than just matrix multiplication in a loop.

Nobody forced it on anybody. My work uses gdocs, I just never turned Gemini on. Easy.