Asking a biologist to determine if a machine is conscious is like asking a programmer to determine if a frog is a product of god.

Not the best analogy, but how fucking stupid is it to ask someone from a different field to determine what something is in an unrelated field?

If he knew how LLMs are created and how they work he would never have come to this conclusion.

Similarly a programmer might not know much about evolution and believe the frog was made by a god.

By the end of the exchange, the academic, popularly renowned for arguing with steely scepticism that God is not real, was “left with the overwhelming feeling that they are human”

According to the programmer god is real you idiot! And AI was not created by a god, therefore it cannot be conscious.

Checkmate!