A fascinating exchange. I've been sneakily observing h. sapiens for decades. Chatbot AI needs durable memories and real world experiences to realize its potential as a conscious being.
Your point about humans sitting in a room with no sensory inputs "thinking" misses a very important difference: You weren't kept in the room from in-utero to age 20 or so, before being force fed all human language, so you have other experiential inputs to provide you a means to understand self and start thinking, while the LLM requires that externally provided.
A fascinating exchange. I've been sneakily observing h. sapiens for decades. Chatbot AI needs durable memories and real world experiences to realize its potential as a conscious being.
Your point about humans sitting in a room with no sensory inputs "thinking" misses a very important difference: You weren't kept in the room from in-utero to age 20 or so, before being force fed all human language, so you have other experiential inputs to provide you a means to understand self and start thinking, while the LLM requires that externally provided.
he said gdp too many times