I mean, IMO the presence of a "soul" is unmeasurable and unfalsifiable. Personally, I usually like to tell people I'm 97% sure GPT-3 isn't sentient. That percen

I mean, IMO the presence of a "soul" is unmeasurable and unfalsifiable. Personally, I usually like to tell people I'm 97% sure GPT-3 isn't sentient. That percentage will undoubtedly go down (for me) as better and better models are created. As far as the fact that it's based on multiplications, you could make the same argument about humans--after all, we're just wet bags of organic molecules undergoing constant chemical reactions. I see the point you're making though and definitely agree to a certain extent in the specific context of GPT-3, but I don't think that matmuls fundamentally preclude the possibility of sentience.