thats irrelevant since an LLM is not an intelligent entity. Whatever you're arguing about is fiction.
Edit: typo
Just because a computer program's output is remarkably good does not mean there is any emergent intelligence, any more than a technology we don't understand means there is magic.
If we should ever fully understand how our own minds work, will we hold machines in higher esteem, or ourselves in lower?
Just because consciousness is a mystery today, doesn't mean we get to stop and say it will be so forever more.
Heck, the problem still fundamentally exists regardless of if you're atheist, monotheist, polytheist, or pantheist.
--
“We’re not listening to you! You’re not even really alive!” said a priest.
Dorfl nodded. “This Is Fundamentally True,” he said.
“See? He admits it!”
“I Suggest You Take Me And Smash Me And Grind The Bits Into Fragments And Pound The Fragments Into Powder And Mill Them Again To The Finest Dust There Can Be, And I Believe You Will Not Find A Single Atom Of Life–”
“True! Let’s do it!”
“However, In Order To Test This Fully, One Of You Must Volunteer To Undergo The Same Process.”
There was silence.
“That’s not fair,” said a priest, after a while. “All anyone has to do is bake up your dust again and you’ll be alive…”
- Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
Also:
> Anything supposing that humans aren’t actually intelligent or conscious or whatever
Doesn't really match what I was writing about: if it turns out that a thing which is "just a pattern recognizer" can in fact be "intelligent or conscious or whatever", it's up to us if we see intelligence or consciousness or whatever in the pattern recognisers that we build, or if we ourselves descend into solipsism and/or nihilism.
Or if we take the traditional path of sticking our fingers in our ears and go "la la la I'm not listening" by way of managing cognitive dissonance. This is a very popular response which should not be underestimated.
But the laws of physics are quite clear, that a whole bunch of linear equations (quantum field theory) gets us chemistry, which gets us biology, etc., and the only place in all this for the feeling of existence that we have is emergent properties. Those emergent properties may, or may not, be present in other systems, but we don't know because we're really bad at characterising how emergent properties… emerge.
But since you are the type of person who is seemingly using LLM "written" code in production, your ability to accurate assess anything is suspect at best.
"Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic".
No, an LLM is not intelligent. I do not understand why people will go through mental gymnastics to conclude they are.
queue all the typical arguments supporting them being intelligent and demanding I give reasons for them not being
These things are indeed "a program on a machine and doesn’t have rights", but what I find scary is that rights aren't part of the rules of the universe, they're merely laws, created and enforced (to the extent that they are at all) by humans.
You have your own individual threshold for what "is" intelligence? Holy cow, imagine if each other agent had their own also, but spoke as if they had a common one...that sure wouldn't be a very intelligent way to run a simulation, imagine the unrealized confusion and delusion that could result if that became a cultural convention!