LLMs are the Chinese Room. They would generate identical output for the same input text every time were it not for artificially introduced randomness (‘heat’).
Of course, some would argue the Chinese Room is conscious.
Of course, some would argue the Chinese Room is conscious.
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precisely, mathematically identical to infinite precision .. "yes".
Meanwhile, in the real world we live in it's essentially physically impossible to stage two seperate systems to be identical to such a degree AND it's an important result that some systems, some very simple systems, will have quite different outcomes without that precise degree of impossibly infinitely detailed identical conditions.
See: Lorenz's Butterfly and Smale's Horseshoe Map.
Clearly you're aware of this, however I find that the majority of casual referrers to determinism are not.
One can say the notion of free will is an unpacked bundle of near infinite forces emerging in and passing through us.