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I'm not sure what to make of comments like this. The discussion around LLMs and their capacities has just been universally horrendous. >But if sentience is req
by hackinthebochs 4y ago
I'm not sure what to make of comments like this. The discussion around LLMs and their capacities has just been universally horrendous.
>But if sentience is required for my computer to produce the "Tada!" noise when it switches on then my computer is sentient also.
But there is a large and obvious difference between your PCs boots up sound process and the output of LLMs. For one, its far more plausible that sentience is required to produce the kinds of texts that LLMs produce than to produce a boot up sound.
>Nothing you have said establishes in any sense that LLMs are sentient
I wasn't trying to, I was simply pointing out the error in concluding a lack of sentience from the arguments given. If you want to have a discussion about how/why LLMs might be sentient, I'm happy to have it. But most people don't actually want to have that discussion.