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LLMs are not conscious.

• anon48293 2mo ago
  Please define consciousness
• matheusmoreira 2mo ago
  Who's to say you are conscious? Only consciousness I'm sure of is my own. Everyone else, it's a leap of faith. I have no trouble extending that leap to cover AIs.
  • willy_k 2mo ago
    Thats some silly intellectualism, people are conscious and machines aren’t. We don’t need precise definitions or scientific rigor to know things.
    • tengada1 2mo ago
      "What's it like to be a bat"
    • matheusmoreira 2mo ago
      > people are conscious Prove it. > machines aren’t Prove it. > We don’t need precise definitions or scientific rigor to know things. You "know" because of empathy. You're a human, you're conscious, therefore other humans are probably conscious too. The truth is for all you know they could be soulless golems, you just choose to believe otherwise. It's a spiritual belief.
      • willy_k 2mo ago
        > It's a spiritual belief. Yes. Thats part of human reality. Denying it is counterproductive at best.
  • LocalH 2mo ago
    If you claim that it's impossible to know if others are conscious, then I posit it is also impossible to know that you are conscious. You might be sure of it, but I'm not. It's not a huge leap, to me, to say "I am conscious, therefore other beings are too." I also extend this to animal and plant life (albeit the latter is very much different from animal consciousness, which includes human consciousness). "AI" is nowhere near the level needed for true consciousness. That would be "AGI" and I believe that is still 50 years away just on raw computing power alone.