This isn’t really an argument against LLMs being sentient.
If any computer program could be “sentient” than any “computer” that could run it could be “sentient”.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/505/
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If AI is sentient then so is this toy from my childhood. Actually I'd belive this magic peice of plastic is alive before any llm. At least this was correct most of the time
All those poor Tamagochis
Wait I actually can't tell for the life of me if this is supposed to be a joke or not
Not a joke. Your tamagochi had a soul and it suffered when you didn't feed it
No that I get haha and I agree but the pic is of one of those 20 questions devices, not a tomagochi
Every soul must taste death.
From a theoretical standpoint, there are three options:
- No Turing machine can possess sentience
- Some - but not all - Turing machines possesses sentience.
- All Turing machines possesses sentience.
Keep in mind that all Turing machines can be computed using a pen and paper (although the paper must be very big). Or goats in age of empires
You dare to doubt the sentience of the AI paper?
AoE II sentience is one AI argument I can get behind.
*sapient