Raw LLM Responses

I’m sorry I didn’t read your full post. Intelligence and consciousness are two different things. Conscious things have subjective experiences. Intelligent things can solve certain types of problems and use information in certain ways. There is no rule that says a conscious being must be intelligent. There is no rule that an intelligent being must be conscious. Appearing to be conscious is also not proof of consciousness. Humans have interpretive abilities that are instinctual. If we cannot understand or describe something’s behavior as mechanical or biological, our brain converts to social interpretation, which is meant to be used on other humans. The lay person, and experts even, don’t really understand how LLMs work on a mechanical level. Admittedly I don’t. So my brain, along with everyone else’s, interprets their behavior as human-like and puts it into the framework that we have established for other humans. Before humanity understood weather, we interpreted it as the result of a conscious process. We imbued it with desires, emotions, and other conscious qualities. Now, even though we cannot predict it, we understand it as a fairly mechanical process, and that understanding, in mapping to the behavior better, supersedes the older one. I don’t know if that will happen with ai, and I cannot deny my own knee-jerk reaction to think of an LLM as a “thinking” thing. But at the end of the day, the LLMs we have now are : -intelligent (able to solve problems using information) - non-conscious (do not have experiences) -non-thinking (do not have an internal subjective monologue that is attached to their intelligence)