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Comment by dclowd9901

15 days ago

In a Chinese room sort of way, sure. The problem is we understand too well how it works, so any semblance of consciousness or self awareness we know to be simple text generation.

The word "simple" is doing quite a massive amount of work there.

  • Hm that's fair.

    Retroactively I'd say "obscenely resource intensive text generation." Meanwhile for me to generate text all I need is water and a banana.

    • That's not so clear cut. I have a half decent local LLM running on my phone for a significantly lower power consumption than a human body.