[phorkyas82]

As far as I understood any AI model is just a linear combination of its training data. Even if that were such a large corpus as the entire web... it's still just like a sophisticated compression of other's people's expressions.

It has not made its own experiences, not interacted with the outer world. Dunno, I won't to rule out something operating solely on language artifacts cannot develop intelligence or consciousness, whatever that is,.. but so far there are also enough humans we could care about and invest into.

[tlb]

LLMs are not a linear combination of training data.

Some LLMs have interacted with the outside world, such as through reinforcement learning while trying to complete tasks in simulated physics environments.

[olmo23]

Just because humans can describe it, doesn't mean they can understand (predict) it.

And the web contains a lot more than people's expressions: think of all the scientific papers with tables and tables of interesting measurements.