A riff on Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat": a dialogue marveling that the things now writing our code and answering our questions are, at bottom, just matrices of floating-point weights — nothing more exotic than numbers tuned by gradient descent.
Chiang argues that mistaking fluent language for inner experience is a category error: LLMs model the distribution of human text, not a mind that feels anything, and the burden of proof for consciousness has not been met.
Google issued equity to Berkshire Hathaway, a deal Thompson reads as a signal of overwhelming demand for compute and a future in which capital — not models or talent — becomes the ultimate commodity in AI.
SpaceX is heading toward what would be the largest IPO in history, a listing that could push Elon Musk's paper net worth past a trillion dollars and tests how public markets price a company built on launch cadence and Starlink revenue.