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I’m curious why you dismiss the sentience argument with its “just numbers.”

I think our brains are just a bunch of cells and one day we will have a full understanding of how our brains work. Understanding the mechanism won’t suddenly make us not sentient.

LLMs are the first technology that can make a case for its own sentience. I think that’s pretty remarkable.



Just?

Cells that send chemicals to each other in varying amounts and even change their structure to be closer to other cells.


Cells are very complicated, bus so are numbers, and LLMs. There’s clearly more complexity in the brain, but I think we’ll get there.


Sure, but why couldn’t all of that be simulated? And if we perfectly simulate it, will it be sentient?




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