Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness

Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the…

Adrian de Wynter (Microsoft) built a 1-bit perceptron in Age of Empires II with goats, exposing LLM consciousness claims as anthropomorphic bias. 57% of AI papers assume LLM human traits; companies leverage this bias to boost subscriptions and inflate perceived AI value.