Are the weights conscious? Anthropic's stance sparks playful probing of AI consciousness criteria
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-09
A post argues Anthropic has implicitly taken the stance that its models (post Nov 12) are likely conscious. The reply plays with the follow-ups: is it the weights that are conscious, or the autoregressive process? At what TTFT or tokens/s does consciousness kick in? What if hardware bandwidth were a straw? A lighthearted but pointed probe of how ill-defined consciousness criteria are for models.
Related event: Anthropic Read as Suggesting Its Models May Be Conscious(2 posts)→
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