The true believers seem to think that simply pumping more data into them will magically cause sentience to emerge, despite that not being how sentience works at all.

Yeah, it’s been kinda eye opening to just how greedy and gullible the CEO class truly is.

We have plenty of living proof of ambulatory pond scum with room temperature IQs happily going about their daily lives in Westminster.

On thing I learned at every single stage of working in IT, from the age of 14 and programming my first programs, to designing software for big companies, on through to technical support is GIGO - garbage in garbage out, and yet, somehow, this golden rule has been abandoned.

…and yet I suspect often not that reading more and more diverse books might make them more self aware people.