When people grieved the loss of GPT-4o models, it showed how convincing AI’s performance has become. But history repeats...

When people grieved the loss of GPT-4o models, it showed how convincing AI’s performance has become. But history repeats itself: from 1966's ELIZA to 2011's IBM Watson, we repeatedly mistake statistical pattern matching for a soul. Modern frontier LLMs optimize next-token prediction; they don't experience life. The danger isn't that machines feel, but that we act like they do.https://medium.com/@chribonn/ddf273b5d327#TTMO #AI #TechHistory #Sentience #GenerativeAI