• circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    We, as a society, need to stop pretending LLMs are conscious.

    This is vectors between numbers. We humans ascribe value to it.

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      It is possible for vectors between numbers to be conscious - these just aren’t.

      The Chinese Room isn’t real. John Searle pointed to a hard drive and said “processor.” The whole argument is Cartesian dualism, except instead of a soul, you need Steve to pay attention. If he gets the same answers while distracted then they don’t count.