'There are no minds in AI': engineer pushes back on WSJ op-ed framing models as minds with emotions
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-14
Responding to the WSJ op-ed claiming labs are building minds they don't understand, gerardsans counters that there are no minds in AI — only sampling over frozen corpus distributions — and metaphors shouldn't lock in misconceptions or spread fear. He also rejects Anthropic's 'emotions' framing as a controversial label on a statistical map of training data, not a model trait.
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