[otabdeveloper4]

Like I said, "consciousness" is a red herring and doesn't even really exist.

What we care about is whether information complexity is increased. LLMs don't (and can't) do that by the very nature of their mathematics.

[LawrenceKerr]

What do you mean it's a red herring and doesn't exist?

It's quite literally the only "thing" we can be sure exists, because without consciousness, we wouldn't experience anything at all.

I agree we care mainly about increasing information complexity in AI systems, but we can't discount the possiblity of consciousness being generated non-biologically in the process. I think we just need a better model of what that means exactly.

[jzombie]

> ...by the very nature of their mathematics

What are their mathematics? Please enlighten me.

[otabdeveloper4]

Their mathematics is a statistical model which outputs the statistically most likely result, in effect leaving only the most significant independent variables. Which decreases information complexity, by definition of "information complexity".

[jzombie]

So, if I write in, "yes, no" it will output, "maybe?" or will it just do a Google search, or will it just output either "yes" or "no?"

And more importantly, will it give the same response every single time?