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Yeah that's called arguments from authority, not so long ago the same people were mixing random crystals and dirt to make gold and trying to convince you that animals were automatons...

It's a bunch of GPUs running code... simpletons get deceived because it is displayed through a chat.

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If you have some defensible definition of when/where/how consciousness emerges, you should publish a paper and go win your Nobel.

This is an unsolved problem.

Right, but then again the burden of proof isn't on my side

What about the burden of proof that you are conscious? After all, you’re just a bunch of neurons firing signals, and 100% of your behavior is readily explained as an automaton in a meat machine.

Do I need to prove my own consciousness to think that chatgpt isn't conscious ?

I swear people defending this idea would argue a plane and a bird are the same thing because "hey look, they both fly and have wings"

You have to prove your understanding of consciousness to be certain that LLMs are not conscious. It’s your certainty that I suspect most are reacting to here.

To have a sufficiently well-founded opinion to call people who disagree with you "simpletons," I'd argue that you indeed should have a defensible idea of what's conscious and what's not. Of course nothing is stopping anyone from being an asshole on the Internet so no, you don't "need" to do anything at all.

TBF ChatGPT is more alive and has more soul than some humans I've met.

And Star Wars is more entertaining than my life, it doesn't make it a real story, if anything it's a testament to how alienating modern life became

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