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How is this "common sense"? The question of what consciousness is, what it emerges from, etc. literally have no proved answer at the moment. Take this statemen
by eureka7 1mo ago
How is this "common sense"? The question of what consciousness is, what it emerges from, etc. literally have no proved answer at the moment.
Take this statement: "consciousness emerges from sufficient complexity in any system". Neither you or I can prove it right or wrong, but we can both make an assumption that if it was right, then there would be a way for an LLM to be conscious.
I'm not arguing that they are, I'm saying being this confident that they are not is the exact same as being confident that they are.
- seethishat 1mo agoYes, I see your point. You could argue that humans, too, are trained to produce expected outputs (family, societal and peer pressure, etc.).
- mcmcmc 1mo agoBy social norms, not running matrix multiplication in their head ad nauseam
- wtallis 1mo agoI don't think that argument holds water, because the scope of what can be reasonably approximated by matrix multiplication is extremely broad (especially when the matrix multiplication is also paired with a source of randomness).
- 4rffs 1mo agoDude we aren't performing some nonsensical calculation in our brains. Mathematics is an invention of humans.
- rudy6912 1mo agoNot sure about "nonsensical calculation", but our brains perform computation (read: they transform information). In fact, that is what the brains are for (see: biology 101). As for mathematics, I am with Galileo: it is the language of the universe. Of course, we "invented" its silly glyphs and the like, but those are secondary. My 2 cents.
- evilfred 1mo agofor the same reason I don't think a pinball machine or ATM is conscious