[ExI] LLM's cannot be concious

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 11:09 AM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Take all the neural impulses from the sense organs a human brain receives
> from birth to age 25 as a huge list of tuples in the format: (neuron id,
> time-stamp). This is ultimately just a list of numbers. But present in
> these numbers exists the capacity for a brain to learn and know everything
> a 25-year-old comes to learn and know about the world. If a human brain can
> do this from this kind of raw, untagged, "referentless" data alone, then
> why can't a machine?
>

"A machine" can, if it is the right kind of machine.

A pure LLM like the ones we have been discussing is not the right kind of
machine.  A pure LLM handles much less kinds of data than a human brain
does.
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