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Podcast: Chaos Computer Club - recent audio-only feed
Episode: Ghost in the stochastic parrot (eh23)
Description: Sci-fi started merging with the real world around 2022. That's when I started paying attention.
Are LLMs definitely persons? Are they definitely not persons? What can we prove?
(What about animals?)
Machines indistinguishable from humans. But we can rule over machines without having ethical concerns! That's the promise of Isaac Asimov's books, if you don't pay attention.
If you do, he's asking how human a robot needs to look like before it really becomes a bit human.
We have robot siblings of HAL 9000 or any friendly robot from Asimov's stories.
Behaving [close enough to humans](https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/the-discourse-has-been-automated/), except...