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The episode discusses the lack of consciousness in chatbots compared to human-like behavior.

I am confident the chatbots aren't conscious in the same way I'm confident the animatronics at Disneyland aren't conscious. I know humans constructed them to mimic the behavior of a sentient person. We know this for a fact. Nobody's pretending otherwise. Reading by Tim Foley.

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