Max LeibmanWhen someone says, “It’s possible that this LLM is already conscious,” treat them as if they had said “It’s possible that this giant table of numbers is already conscious.”
goatcheese@maxleibman somewhere in the book Empire of AI, Karen Hao quotes an (unnamed) DeepMind scientist who responds to a claim from Sutskever that modern neural networks "might be slightly conscious" by saying: "in the same sense that it may be that a large field of wheat is slightly pasta"
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