Comment by thebruce87m
8 hours ago
If your brain is hardware then what are your thoughts?
Is a sperm conscious? Or an egg? When they come together the eventual brain is not conscious immediately.
8 hours ago
If your brain is hardware then what are your thoughts?
Is a sperm conscious? Or an egg? When they come together the eventual brain is not conscious immediately.
LLMs are word prediction engines.
They clearly are not conscious, they are just guessing what words should come next.
The human brain is an electrical signal prediction machine.
Anything that looks like intelligence will look like a prediction machine because the alternative is logic being hardcoded apriori.
> They clearly are not conscious
Consciousness is emergent. A human is not conscious by our definition until the moment they are. How will we be able to identify the singularity when it comes? I feel like this is what the article is really addressing.
> LLMs are word prediction engines
Humans can also do this too, so what are the missing parts for consciousness? Close a few loops on learning pipeline and we might be there.
I feel like it’s quite straightforward - if it’s a living breathing thing it can be conscious, if it is a set of man made mathamatical models that can be switched of, it can be intelligent, but not conscious.
How do we know that that isn't essentially how our minds work?
It probably is, but the difference is that the signals are happening in a persons and not a gpu.