Justine Bateman Dismisses 'AI Is Conscious' Claims: It's Just Next-Token Prediction
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-12
Filmmaker Justine Bateman argued that "AI is conscious" claims stem from misunderstanding how LLMs work: a model merely breaks prompts into tokens and runs statistical algorithms to predict the most likely response, with no autonomy at any point. The quote-poster echoed this, calling LLMs "statistical calculators," and linked a Harvard Business School Online explainer covering how LLMs learn statistical patterns from massive text corpora, predict next tokens, and differ from products like ChatGPT built on top of them.
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