alt Hacker NewsAh yes, because you used the magical pixie dust that makes experiences "real" therefore you're actually seeing and hearing while a multimodal LLM doesn't really experience what it sees and hears "for real". We can be certain of this because, despite not being able to quantify or even rigorously define the phenomenon we intentionally deprive the LLMs of access to said magical pixie dust.
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DonaldFisk • yesterday at 10:16 AM
I just explained this. If someone looks at the contents of an image file without displaying it, they don't experience the colours either. So how can LLMs experience them?
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I agree. To further ask, why is your training data objectively real and qualifies you for consciousness?
Is a deaf or blind person not conscious because they don't share your training data? If a deaf person reads about sounds, their experience of them is moot?
If an alien with a greater array of senses then us exists, are we therefore not conscious?