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🧠 Microsoft vs AI Consciousness
Do you really think AI has feelings?

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What we’ll cover today:
🧠 Microsoft says AI “feelings” talk is dangerous
🌍 Google’s AI Mode goes global with bookings
🛑 Meta freezes hiring after poaching spree
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Microsoft’s AI chief says studying “AI feelings” is dangerous and distracting.
Anthropic, DeepMind, and OpenAI are funding research on AI consciousness and rights.
Suleyman wants AI built as tools, not as fake people.
The real risk is public believing AIs have emotions, creating messy cultural and legal fights.
Do you ever treat AI like it has feelings? |
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AI Mode now works in 180 countries.
New features let you book restaurants and, soon, services or tickets.
It learns your habits to give personalized results.
Premium plan costs $249.99 a month, turning AI into a paid concierge.
Meta stopped hiring after poaching 50+ top AI researchers.
It just split its AI unit into four new teams.
Huge pay packages are worrying investors.
The freeze shows Meta may be overextended after its hiring binge.
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AI is obviously gonna one-shot the human limbic system.
That said, I predict – counter-intuitively – that it will *increase* the birth rate!
Mark my words.
Also, we’re gonna program it that way.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
12:04 PM • Aug 21, 2025
Normies are calling this the "post-AI era"
Implying that all the cool AI innovation is behind us
Someone should break it to them....
WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED
— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy)
1:05 AM • Aug 21, 2025
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