If it was in an android or humanoid type body, even with limited bodily control, most people would think they are talking to Commander Data from Star Trek. I think Claude is sufficiently advanced that almost everyone in that era would've considered it AGI.

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redfloatplane 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Assuming they would understand it as artificial - I think many people would think it's a human intelligence in a cyborg trenchcoat, and it would be hard to convince people it wasn't literally a guy named Claude who was an incredibly fast typist who had a million pre-cached templated answers for things.

But in general, yeah, I agree, I think they would think it was a sentient, conscious, emotional being. And then the question is - why do we not think that now?

As I said, I don't have a particularly strong opinion, but it's very interesting (and fun!) to think about.

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horacemorace an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Because questions like this force us to hold up a very uncomfortable mirror to ourselves. It’s much easier to just dismiss.

	▲	woeirua an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I’m pretty close to the point of saying that human intelligence is not special.

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woeirua an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Some people at my office still confidently state that LLMs can’t think. I’m fairly convinced that many humans are incapable of recognizing non-human intelligence. It would explain a lot about why we treat animals the way we do.