Comment by emp17344
14 days ago
Materialism is a necessary condition to claim that the ideas LLMs produce are identical to the ones humans produce, but it isn’t a sufficient condition. Your assertion does nothing to demonstrate that LLM output and human output is identical in practice.
> demonstrate that LLM output and human output is identical in practice.
What do you mean? If a human and an LLM output the same words, what remains to be demonstrated? Do you claim that the output somehow contains within itself the idea that generated it, and thus a piece of machinery that did not really perceive the idea can generate a "philosophical zombie output" that has the same words, but does not contain the same meaning?
Is this in the same sense that some argue that an artifact being a work of art is dependent on the intent behind its creation? Such that if Jackson Pollock intentionally randomly drips paint over a canvas, it's art, but if he were to accidentally kick the cans while walking across the room and create similar splotches, then it's not art?