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The researcher didn't make an LLM, he made a NAND gate, and in theory that could be expanded into an LLM
All computers are just a minimum of three layers of NAND gates
LLMs are not sentient, but this gimmick doesn't prove that.
There's nothing to indicate the human brain can't be implemented in a Turing machine too.
Except ... consciousness!
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.
I'm still not convinced most people I speak to at work are sentient.
I majored in Philosophy. Though I wouldn't want to be an AI ethics consultant for one of these big companies because I imagine that whatever I write down would have to preserve profits (first and foremost) and then gaslight everyone into thinking it's all perfectly ethical and okay and no one (including mother earth) is being harmed in the process.
You don't need an ethicist if you don't have ethics! /s
I just wish we could put this dumb sentient AI stuff to bed for now. Congrats, you guys built the most powerful (and wasteful) auto-complete. It's not sentient and your marketing doesn't have to be hyperbolic lies.
Can you build a human from goats in AOE2?
An average human? No. A lemmy.world user? Yes.
Yeah, fuck those idiots for joining when it was the only instance accepting new members
Exactly!
It is incredible how we forgotten the whole point of the Turning test the moment it became relevant rather than some abstract though experiment.
"Man built brain out of simple particles, proving brains are not sentient."
HOLY SHIT, AGE OF EMPIRES II IS SENTIENT
Lord Henry Percy: Thou art human, with soul and wit! I am naught but clockwork!
Lord Henry Percy: No wonder thou wert victorious! I shall abdicate.
Lord Henry Percy has resigned.
The moderate difficulty computer I just beat disagrees.
To be fair, humans anthropomorphising everything, of course they do that with software that can fucking talk to them.
John Searle is the GOAT?
