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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.

Let me fix that Headline "Microsoft Researcher Turns Age Of Empire Goats Sentient."

“I built a single neuron to prove that brains aren’t sentient” is obviously dumb.

I’m not claiming that LLMs are sentient (their current forms can’t be, for several reasons) but this research is poorly done.

Besides, judging sapience entirely off of the processing substrate is a serious “no true Scotsman” kind of thing.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

But can it run Doom?

Maybe sentience was virtual goats all along.