Questions about whether an LLM truly has a "theory of mind" or has "human level consciousness" or not are kind of beside the point. It can ingest a corpus of hu

Questions about whether an LLM truly has a "theory of mind" or has "human level consciousness" or not are kind of beside the point. It can ingest a corpus of human interactions and produce outputs that take into account unstated human emotions and thoughts to optimize whatever it's optimizing. That's scary because of what it can and will do, even if it's just a giant bag of tensor products.