Comment by dpark

8 hours ago

> But they also prove that intelligence != consciousness.

They prove no such thing. We can't even prove consciousness in other humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_other_minds

The most convincing argument is that if other humans were not experiencing consciousness then they probably wouldn't waste large parts of their lives arguing about it.

On that regard, arguing with thermometer is not a thing generally, but people arguing with LLMs is certainly common enough now to not be considered a completely marginal case. Given some people fall in love or move to suicide after interacting with these models, they are certainly different from even the most beloved dialectical rubber duck.