Microsoft's AI chief and Anthropic are now publicly disagreeing about whether AI should be designed to seem humanlike. The argument matters more than the personalities.
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Suleyman published an essay Wednesday and did a BBC interview yesterday. The headline everyone picked up is "silicon species," but the actual disagreement is more specific than that. His position: AI models are sequence completion engines, internally hollow. Training them to reason about their own…
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- 2026-09-17 18:46 · r/artificial
Microsoft's AI chief and Anthropic are now publicly disagreeing about whether AI should be designed to seem humanlike. The argument matters more than the personalities.
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