If your brain is hardware then what are your thoughts?
replyIs a sperm conscious? Or an egg? When they come together the eventual brain is not conscious immediately.
LLMs are word prediction engines.
replyThey clearly are not conscious, they are just guessing what words should come next.
The human brain is an electrical signal prediction machine.
replyAnything that looks like intelligence will look like a prediction machine because the alternative is logic being hardcoded apriori.
> They clearly are not conscious
replyConsciousness is emergent. A human is not conscious by our definition until the moment they are. How will we be able to identify the singularity when it comes? I feel like this is what the article is really addressing.
> LLMs are word prediction engines
Humans can also do this too, so what are the missing parts for consciousness? Close a few loops on learning pipeline and we might be there.
How do we know that that isn't essentially how our minds work?
replyI do appreciate how AI has been taught to spell properly as in the difference between its and it's. Here, initially I thought you'd left out the apostrophe in its, but then I realized you might be saying 'the reason it is not conscious is because of -its- software - the latter not being conscious. Context and interpretation are rather critical. (I know - a truism!)
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