I’m curious why you dismiss the sentience argument with its “just numbers.”

I think our brains are just a bunch of cells and one day we will have a full understanding of how our brains work. Understanding the mechanism won’t suddenly make us not sentient.

LLMs are the first technology that can make a case for its own sentience. I think that’s pretty remarkable.

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tayo42 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Just?

Cells that send chemicals to each other in varying amounts and even change their structure to be closer to other cells.

	▲	sjducb 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Cells are very complicated, bus so are numbers, and LLMs. There’s clearly more complexity in the brain, but I think we’ll get there.
	▲	cortesoft 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sure, but why couldn’t all of that be simulated? And if we perfectly simulate it, will it be sentient?