"I experience consciousness directly. I infer that other humans do too because we share biological structures and processes. We don’t have equivalent evidence for an LLM, and nothing about its known operation gives evidence of conscious experience."
Wow. I woke up to an impressive number of upset people who apparently don’t understand how LLMs work and can’t cope well with me pointing it out. An LLM is a statistical next-token prediction model. That’s how it works. It’s an extraordinarily sophisticated calculator performing
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substance 6 · argument · rank 142 · Unlike humans, LLMs share no biology with us and lack evidence of conscious experience.
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This suffices to convince me that biracial colorblind men are conscious, but the rest of you are still zombies as far as I'm concerned.