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That would be the same as drawing N cards without replacement that match the first color.

Clearly they do come into the debate, but I don’t think that they need to come into the debate. And I think that the fact that they do...

I don't know of any test of self-awareness which has been applied to an ant and has found ants to be self-aware. I doubt that they would...

Yes. As I already invited @PeroK : Give me a test for measuring self-awareness and then that is the line. He didn't provide one, so I...

I am self-aware, as are other healthy adult humans. Human infants are not self-aware. Why? Because adult humans pass the rouge test and...

"Magic", that is the keyword that hit me in your statement. IMO, thinking LLMs can become aware and conscious by themselves is as magic...

I personally would not use the words "agenda" and "subverting", as those do not seem to be neutral terms regarding the question of...

PS reading through the last three pages of responses, I think there are broadly three points of view here. There is the hardline...

I think that was an initial thought about the problem, but ... ... more sophisticated models with more training data have actually been...

I think this may be too strong a statement. We certainly can say that we know all of the weights in a trained deep neural network. And...

That is where the agency argument comes in - cells have agency, activation functions in a NN do not.

And I necessarily agree with Dale's point: the "intelligent yes or no" debate is really pointless. Perhaps it's a waste of time. The...

Fair enough. This I agree is a major issue.

That's a hard sell to the family of a guy who got decapitated when his self-driving car drove under a truck it thought was a cloud.

Newton's laws of motion apply to molecules*. Each collision between molecules/particles in any system follows Newton's laws (assuming...