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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
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While I agree with you, the issue is that this question is almost more religious than technical. Folks can rearrange the goal posts, and claim stuff like humans only respond to stimulus just stimulus is non stop and response is unbounded. They can claim things like the rolling cotext window is the conciousness.
I've learned to roughly steer clear because the "LLMs are conscious folks" are impossible to discuss with and it's just kind of miserable and scary trying to engoge.