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

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

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. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Research House Anthropics says it's clawed AI bot may be conscious.
0:04.0	Robots run a half marathon in China.
0:07.0	Will you soon be able to shop directly in chat cheapy T?
0:11.0	And Instagram founder puts Mark Zuckerberg on blast.
0:15.0	That's coming up right after this.
0:17.0	Forward thinkers know that when people thrive, organizations thrive.
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0:44.7	HP.com slash AIPC. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
0:55.7	cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:57.8	We've got a great show for you today.
0:59.1	We're going to talk about whether AI systems are conscious already.
1:02.1	Could they become conscious?
1:03.3	What does that feel like?
1:04.3	Because research houses like Anthropic have started to take it seriously.
1:08.9	We're also going to talk about this robot half marathon in China,
1:12.1	whether you can shop directly in Chad Sheputie and Instagram founder Kevin Sistram testifying against Meta in the big FTC trial.
1:19.9	Joining us, as always, on Fridays is Ron John Roy of margins. Ron John, great to see you. Welcome to the show.
1:25.3	Now the robots are going to make me feel guilty about not going for a run this week.
1:29.7	Thank you, robots. And you're becoming conscious as well.
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