> So I don't care about it being "born in a box" or perceiving the world "through a pinhole." Because it isn't alive. It's a tool. It isn't sentient. It isn't t

> So I don't care about it being "born in a box" or perceiving the world "through a pinhole." Because it isn't alive. It's a tool. It isn't sentient. It isn't thinking. It is an incredibly complex statistical system. You have no idea what "sentient" or "thinking" mean mechanistically, so you literally cannot make this claim, nor can you demonstrate at this time that the human mind is not just an incredibly complex statistical system. This argument of yours is just a basic fallacy of ignorance, and unfortunately very common among people who are very certain that LLMs don't understand anything. I'm not sure what you think your example proves, but humans can exhibit comparable confusions from comparable prompts (like from priming). In fact, one might say that priming shows some behaviours that are eerily similar to some LLM failure modes. The classic Surgeon's Dilemma riddle test for unconscious bias is a perfect example of human failures comparable to the bias in your own example. Ultimately, you're guilty of exactly the same leap to conclusions that those hyping GPT and LLMs are doing, just in the opposite direction.