Nobody who believes that LLMs cannot be conscious will ever believe that they can be conscious. And they will say things like the writer of this piece who says ‘we know how they work.’ We don’t, actually. We know how to reliably manufacture them. Anybody can do this - enthusiasts do it on their own desktops. But what is happening that creates their emergent behaviors is a black box that we cannot see inside. We also don’t know what consciousness is and we don’t know what has it and what doesn’t other than that which our “feelies” dictate. Unfortunately, these two factoids do not appear to give humanity any degree of pause when it comes to this conversation.

I just moved to lemmy.zip from dbzer0 and before that, world, mainly because I want to be the one blocking, I don’t want my instance to block for me. I must not be subscribed to the right places, because I just don’t see a whole lot of CCP/RUS apologia? I’m pretty good at passing over shit I know I won’t agree with though, so it might just not be registering.