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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
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By the same logic, you could prove that we are not sentient.
Engineers need to stop trying to do the job of philosophers. LLMs are not sentient, but that tells us nothing about what gives rise to sentience or whether silicon is a substrate that could host a sentient consciousness.
For the record, at least one Nobel Prize winner disagrees about LLM sentience
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw
A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:
Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems
James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists
Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s
Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories
Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS
Just winning a Nobel doesn't automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.