Comment by haritha-j
1 month ago
Even a basic understanding of LLMs should convince anyone that LLM conciousness and well being are nonsensical ideas. And as for constitution, I mostly object to the use of the word rather than the concept of guidelines. Its an uncessarily grandiose word. And yes I'm aware that its been used in LLM research before.
Do you have a known-good, rigorously validated consciousness-meter that you can point at an LLM to confirm that it reads "NO CONSCIOUSNESS DETECTED"?
No? You don't?
Then where exactly is that overconfidence of yours coming from?
We don't know what "consciousness" is - let alone whether it can happen in arrays of matrix math. The leading theories, for all the good they do, are conflicting on whether LLM consciousness can be ruled out - and we, of course, don't know which theory of consciousness is correct. Or if any of them is.
By that logic I cannot rule out the cosciousness of my water bottle either.
True. You can't. And if the "consciousness is a property of matter" theory holds, then it might be conscious, to a degree. Maybe not a very interesting consciousness though.
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