I was pissed off at the 404 article, because a paper arguing LLMs will never achieve consciousness must define what they mean by consciousness, and the 404 article didn't mention the definition. This is a paper from DeepMind, so surely they are rigorous.
Turned out 404 didn't mention it because the paper never defines what LLM's can't achieve. Quoting from the paper: "A key insight from our contribution is that resolving the present uncertainty surrounding artificial consciousness does not require a complete and final theory of consciousness."
As you say, Dijkstra neatly penned a response to arguments that don't define their terms in 1983. They are exercises in linguistics, not science or engineering.
Turned out 404 didn't mention it because the paper never defines what LLM's can't achieve. Quoting from the paper: "A key insight from our contribution is that resolving the present uncertainty surrounding artificial consciousness does not require a complete and final theory of consciousness."
As you say, Dijkstra neatly penned a response to arguments that don't define their terms in 1983. They are exercises in linguistics, not science or engineering.