eleijeepFeb 25

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

https://piefed.social/c/linux/p/1815630/bcachefs-creator-claims-his-custom-llm-is-fully-conscious

Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Feb 25
It’s basically impossible to create conciousness when we don’t even fully understand what conciousness is or how it works.
Show threadHubertManne
I disagree here. Things can happen by accident. Doubtful but possible. Nothing I have seen has been conscious to me certainly.
Feb 25 at 5:14pmWeb
Show threadVictorFeb 25

I agree, and it’s all a matter of definition. What makes an LLM different from us? To an all-knowing being, are we humans not just deterministic walking machines?

I find it hard to even arrive at a definition of consciousness.

Show threadmindbleachFeb 26

… and this wasn’t made by accident, it was deliberately engineered to develop emergent behavior. Quite a lot of money has been spent hiring a variety of experts to make it do this thing.

Hasn’t worked. Almost certainly will never work, with this particular kind of network. But we would not have known that, just by looking at diagrams and going ‘naaahhh.’