{"id":793209,"date":"2026-07-10T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793209\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:21:11","slug":"ai-isnt-human-stop-talking-about-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793209\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Isn\u2019t Human. Stop Talking About It Like It Is."},"content":{"rendered":"

Do androids dream of electric sheep?<\/p>\n

This famous question was posed in the title of the Philip K. Dick novel that inspired the sci-fi movie classic Blade Runner. It is now at the heart of our real-life debates about artificial intelligence. The point of Dick\u2019s question is this: If robots could dream, it would mean they had inner lives\u2014not just mechanized patterns of behavior, but private ideas and feelings they might experience without ever putting them into words. And if that were true, what, if anything, would be left to separate us from them?<\/p>\n

So naturally, many people were alarmed when the AI company Anthropic announced this week<\/a> that its large language model, Claude, could \u201csilently perform reasoning steps in its head.\u201d That made it sound an awful lot like the machine was alive.<\/p>\n

What Anthropic\u2019s research team actually discovered was something a lot less sensational, though still completely fascinating. They published a paper<\/a> showing that Claude has code it can target and deploy to answer prompts, without putting that particular code into words that its human users can see. For example, if you ask Claude\u2019s chatbot, \u201cWhat color is the fourth planet from the sun?\u201d it might respond \u201cred\u201d without ever naming the planet in question as \u201cMars.\u201d But Claude has a chunk of numbers that corresponds to the concept we call \u201cMars,\u201d and that same chunk of numbers might also get used if you ask which planet is named after the Roman god of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do androids dream of electric sheep? This famous question was posed in the title of the Philip K.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-793209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}