> How do you square the lack of durable memory This one is easy. There are people who lack durable memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia ht

> How do you square the lack of durable memory This one is easy. There are people who lack durable memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia Are they not sentient? > I've yet to see a single person who thinks these models are sentient demonstrate an actual understanding of how they work. Condescendence aside, I don't know how you can truthfully claim that. Did you actually hand out test papers to those people and they failed? Or did you tautologically conclude those people don't understand it because there's no way a person can understand how transformers work and still arrive at a different conclusion as you did? You might think your logic is watertight, but I think, as mentioned, this is probably an empirical question. > Humans can be sentient without language. Indeed; some humans are tragically raised in isolation and struggle mightily with language after being saved. A transformer is nothing without language. A=>B does not imply not A => not B.