[hnfong]

> as you can see in the Chinese Room thought experiment

The Chinese Room thought experiment is a thought experiment, where Searle argues that the functional definition of intelligence is not enough, and he gives an example that might convince some that the "implementation" is important.

However, the neural networks in LLMs function at least superficially similar to our brains. It doesn't function at all like a "Chinese room" where predefined scripts are given to a simple machine. Even if we accept the Chinese room argument as an objection to the functional intelligence test, given that LLMs work more similarly to brains than a Chinese room, I don't think you could use the argument as a rebuttal against LLMs being sentient unless you could show that "similarity between us and LLMs is not enough".