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> data series about the world, where the "work of human beings" is just setting up the the collection devices. So models can absolutely "experience the world"

But not experience it the way humans do.

We don’t experience a data series; we experience sensory input in a complicated, nuanced way, modified by prior experiences and emotions, etc. remember that qualia is subjective, with a biological underpinning.

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Perhaps. But these models can already clearly write about the world, in useful ways, without such 'qualia' or 'biological underpinnings'.

Sure, and there are many such writings that can be useful. No denying. But the LLM cannot experience like humans do and so will forever be outside our circle. Whether it also remains outside our circle of empathy, or us outside of its, remains to be discovered.

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