Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck

Alex Kantrowitz April 28, 2025
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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic researcher's assertion that there's a 15% chance Claude is conscious 2) What happens if people believe AI is sentient? 3) Why consciousness and intelligence are different 4) Hey, is this all just marketing? 5) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's push for AI model interpretability 6) China's robot half-marathon 7) Tesla's wild earnings week 8) Why Google is thriving despite the ChatGPT threat 9) Are we going to shop directly within ChatGPT? 10) Kevin Systrom's flawed testimony against Facebook 11) Washington DC thinks Big Tech is getting broken up.

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