"What if a cyber brain could possibly generate its own ghost, create a soul all by itself? And if it did, just what would be the importance of being human then?

"What if a cyber brain could possibly generate its own ghost, create a soul all by itself? And if it did, just what would be the importance of being human then?” - Ghost in the Shell (1995) Having studied some psychology in college, my initial reaction is that most people are going to really struggle to treat LLMs as what they are, pieces of code that are good at copying/predicting what humans would do. Instead they'll project some emotion to the responses, because there was some underlying emotions in the training data and because that's human nature. A good prediction doesn't mean good understanding, and people aren't used to needing to make that distinction. The other day I had to assist my dad in making a zip file, later in the day he complained that his edits in a file weren't saving. After a few moments, I realized he didn't understand the read-only nature of zip files. He changed a file, saved it like usual, and expected the zipped file to update, like it everywhere else. He's brilliant as his job, after I explained that it's ready-only, he got it. LLMs and how the algorithm behind it works is hard to understand and explain to non-technical people without anthropomorphizing AI. The current controversy about AI art highlights this, I have read misunderstandings and wrong explanations even from FAANG software engineers. I am not sure if education of the underlying principles is enough, because some people will trust their own experiences over data and science.