alt Hacker News> During conversation, we are statistical token generators whose results are dependent upon our training set. Seriously, write that definition out rigorously.
If you do not see a difference between humans conversing (known consciousness as defined by humans) and the output of an LLM (known algorithms as defined by humans), I don't know what to say.
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> If you do not see a difference between humans conversing (known consciousness as defined by humans) and the output of an LLM (known algorithms as defined by humans), I don't know what to say.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2524472123
Whatever you might think about your own abilities, most individuals can't tell the difference.
That’s not what they said. They said that the difference is not that.
Then disprove the physical Church Turing hypothesis in regard to the human brain.
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You are responding to a claim about mathematical definitions with subjective experience. No, consciousness is not well-defined, and is irrelevant to this discussion. If we cannot agree on definitions, then we have no ground to stand on. Since LLMs actually can be defined mathematically, and are most commonly studied through that definition, I think it is best to stick to definitions most relevant to that frame of study, wouldn't you agree? Otherwise, we really are anthropomorphising here.