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by TimTheTinker 78 days ago
Humans may not always be that smart, but we do at least have an internal state and an awareness of that internal state - a "self-awareness".

AI most certainly has nothing of the sort, and any appearance to the contrary is the direct result of training data.

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That is a bold statement that would need proof to back it up in both cases. So far it is only dogma. And unlike humans, we actually have research hints that this assumption is false for LLMs. Just because the state is not human-explainable doesn't mean it does not exist. The same is true btw for any physical "state" that may or may not exist in the human brain. Everything else is religion and metaphysics.
You're either trolling or being incredibly obtuse. LLMs are not conscious, they're guess-the-next-state algorithms. This is so dumb I can't believe I have to share a planet with people who are losing touch with such a fundamental reality