[Novapebble]

Being able to make statistically relevant references to words is abstract token shuffling. One could say that humans are doing that also, but we also have countless cellular interactions and confirmations that LLMs don't engage in. Minds are things bodies do, not software that can be transported elsewhere.

[gzoo]

I get it but what if the upward trajectory in AI improvement we're seeing eventually gets so close we can barely tell the difference? I'm not saying they will be 100% "human" but they sure will FEEL like it. Enough to distort reality in a sense.

[Novapebble]

We're already at that point in many situations, but the simulations always break when the datasets are thin. And they always will because the chatbot cannot generate new experience because it has no direct connection to reality through its embodiment.

Sensing robots that can move around with an LLM attached to speak for them would likely be much closer to the real thing.