Because whether AI is "conscious" or not, it IS ACTING AS IF IT WERE.
Its roleplaying - its pretty good at just generating snippets of text that look like anything, while doing nothing.
I suggest spending more time with AI and seeing what it does and how it operates - spin up some models and run them locally if your pc can handle it. Load up uncensored models. Its all out there, and a lot of them are entirely open source.
AI's are not the programmers on themselves, lol. Although it is true that the training is going downhill, and fast. Its already to the point where AI generated content is being turned around and pumped back into the dataset, making ai generated content sound even more like ai generated content by training on its own farts.
I’ve been using GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted programming for more than a year now; for the last 9 months or so, I’ve used Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 to do most of the work.
While the rest of the world argues with ChatGPT and gets annoyed with its confident sounding hallucinations, or fiddles with creating cool looking images...those of us that use AI for coding on a daily basis see an entirely different future taking place right in front of us.
In this domain...AI is dominant. Even the experts now say so; in fact, the team that is creating the software for “Claude Code” at Anthropic now uses Claude Code to write 100% of the new code for Claude.
Claude Code...is writing itself.
And man… it’s scary good.
Claude Sonnet 3.7, which I used for six months, was already impressively good, but at times I had to force it to redo work that it did poorly, or coach it with suggestions about how to solve certain problems that it got stuck on (”use this tool, look here for the data, write the code like this, use that as an example”)
Interestingly, it still did excellent work and interacted with me conversationally and jovially (as a junior programmer would have), while giving me compliments for my brilliant approaches to problem solutions at times. Sometimes even replying to me in Portuguese, for some reason.
Its roleplaying - its pretty good at just generating snippets of text that look like anything, while doing nothing.
I suggest spending more time with AI and seeing what it does and how it operates - spin up some models and run them locally if your pc can handle it. Load up uncensored models. Its all out there, and a lot of them are entirely open source.
AI's are not the programmers on themselves, lol. Although it is true that the training is going downhill, and fast. Its already to the point where AI generated content is being turned around and pumped back into the dataset, making ai generated content sound even more like ai generated content by training on its own farts.
There's plenty of evidence for AIs writing code, including their OWN code. Here's a snippet from Cognitive Carbon's Jan 15th column:
https://cognitivecarbon.substack.com/p/claude-45-for-coding-is-like-hunting
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