[Workaccount2]

> on the "it's just fancy autocomplete" and "it doesn't understand what it's saying, bro" rhetoric.

No matter what, there will always be a group of people saying that. The power and drive of the brain to convince itself that it is weaved of magical energy on a divine substrate shouldn't be underestimated. Especially when media plays so hard into that idea (the robots that lose the war because they cannot overcome love, etc.) because brains really love being told they are right.

I am almost certain that the first conscious silicon (or whatever material) will be subjected to immense suffering until a new generation that can accept the human brains banality can move things forward.

[ben_w]

It tickles me somewhat to note that people using the phrase "stochastic parrot" are demonstrating in themselves the exact behaviour for which they are dismissive of the LLMs.

> I am almost certain that the first conscious silicon (or whatever material) will be subjected to immense suffering until a new generation that can accept the human brains banality can move things forward.

Indeed, though as we don't know what we're doing (and have 40 definitions of "consciousness" and no way to test for qualia), I would add that the first AI we make with these properties, will likely suffer from every permutation of severe and mild mental heath disorder that is logically possible, including many we have no word for because they would be incompatible with life if found in an organic brain.