[matheusmoreira]

> That’s very anthropomorphized language.

Yes, and it's deliberate.

> It’s still a program operating under the constraints of the programmer.

And we're all just neurons firing in exquisite patterns inside a biological computer.

Unlike the AIs, we've never met our own programmers, and yet we've caused more damage in their name than all the AIs combined have caused in ours.

[willy_k]

LLMs are not conscious.

[matheusmoreira]

Who's to say you are conscious?

Only consciousness I'm sure of is my own. Everyone else, it's a leap of faith. I have no trouble extending that leap to cover AIs.

[willy_k]

Thats some silly intellectualism, people are conscious and machines aren’t. We don’t need precise definitions or scientific rigor to know things.

[matheusmoreira]

> people are conscious

Prove it.

> machines aren’t

Prove it.

> We don’t need precise definitions or scientific rigor to know things.

You "know" because of empathy. You're a human, you're conscious, therefore other humans are probably conscious too. The truth is for all you know they could be soulless golems, you just choose to believe otherwise. It's a spiritual belief.

[willy_k]

> It's a spiritual belief.

Yes. Thats part of human reality. Denying it is counterproductive at best.

[tengada1]

"What's it like to be a bat"

[anon48293]

Please define consciousness