I'm only being slightly sarcastic. Sentience is a scale. A worm has less than a mouse, a mouse has less than a dog, and a dog less than a human.
Sure, we can reset LLMs at will, but give them memory and continuity, and they definitely do not score zero on the sentience scale.
Perhaps we are not so very different?
Yet they cannot take action themselves.
Neither could Hawking, once the motor neurone disease got far enough.
Additionally, thinking organisms don’t get stuck in never ending loops because they can CHOOSE to exit the loop. LLMs don’t have that ability
E.g. it could have access to camera and microphone feed, which is automatically given to it in interval as part of the loop, it could call tools or functions to store specific bits and pieces of information, to store in its RAG or whatever based knowledge base. It is not going to be in the loop of producing the same token over and over, it would be new tokens because the context and environment is constantly evolving.
It does nothing. Because there is not impetus for it to do anything by itself.
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Maintain context and trigger at 1 second intervals.
It has no desires of its own. Nothing that motivates it. It’s not conscious.
We get constantly changing input. And yet, look at this thread, where the same points are being echoed without anyone changing their mind.
By design, no.
But, importantly, that's because the closest it has to an experience of time is an ongoing input of tokens. Humans constantly get new input, so for this to be a fair comparison, the LLM would also have to get constant new input.
Humans in solitary confinement become mentally ill (both immediately and long-term), and hallucinate stuff (at least short term, I don't know about long term).
You've recreated a religious belief known as Animism and phrased it in a faux objective way. ("not score zero on the sentience scale.")