alt Hacker NewsI don’t think anyone is arguing the silicon is conscious.
Similarly the paper.
What about the agent doing the calculations.
He may be conscious. Or anyway, we can’t rule it out.
I don’t think anyone is arguing the silicon is conscious.
Similarly the paper.
What about the agent doing the calculations.
He may be conscious. Or anyway, we can’t rule it out.
With both cases the agent doing something is human. And human beings are indeed conscious. Outside human needs LLM are useless.
Math, as a tool, is just a proxy for people using LLMs, as well as GPUs spending cycles on calculating the math