Comment by ACCount36

"Not conscious" is a silly claim.

We have no agreed-upon definition of "consciousness", no accepted understanding of what gives rise to "consciousness", no way to measure or compare "consciousness", and no test we could administer to either confirm presence of "consciousness" in something or rule it out.

The only answer to "are LLMs conscious?" is "we don't know".

It helps that the whole question is rather meaningless to practical AI development, which is far more concerned with (measurable and comparable) system performance.