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Unlike calculators, language-based AI feels as though it is thinking, conscious, and speaking to users because it operates through language rather than mathematics.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“but I do think that the difference here is that it's language,”
“not math.”
“And so that makes it feel like something is sort of thinking and conscious and talking to us.”Play from 28:40Report a misattribution
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