> while completely sidestepping any notion of consciousness/self awareness.
How are you so sure about this?
You can't see what the internal experience of an LLM is like any better than you can see the internal experience of another person.
How are you so sure about this?
You can't see what the internal experience of an LLM is like any better than you can see the internal experience of another person.
That the answer doesn't matter, and capabilities and behaviour are there either way.
To my mind, "sidestepping the question of consciousness" and "sidestepping any notion of consciousness" mean very different things.