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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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It's absurd that this is even a question for some people. We may get AGI someday, but a vector database that generates streams of tokens based on tokens that it receives as input is never going to be it no matter how huge you make it. It lacks a world model, it doesn't have the capacity to update itself with new information, and - most importantly - it doesn't even do anything until it receives input.
And the assholes pushing this as potential AGI fucking know all that already. They know that without input, LLMs literally do nothing. They're not sitting there going, "I think therefore I am" while waiting around to hallucinate dangerous medical advice and fake case law at people. They are static and unchanging.
I find it interesting because it forces lots of people to think at least superficially about how they would define consciousness and its boundaries.
Does it need a substrate? Does the substrate need to be constantly active? Does it need to be organic? Does it need to be able to do high level computation and thinking? Any answer you may give is unfalsifiable so it's not like it's a scientific subject anyway. It's all vibes.
I like that it gives anyone the opportunity to wrestle with some hardcore metaphysics.