My point is not that an LLM is conscious or "alive" or anything like that. It is that humans might not actually be in control of our own cognition. Whatever it does mean, it means *something* and no one is reckoning with it.
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The fact that this works is a profound discovery with implications that reach into our very conception of reality. It is rational to assume they work as you described, because the truth is nearly inconceivable. Corporations aren't in a hurry to correct misconceptions about this, obviously.
No, I assure you it is not. The most interesting thing about this whole disaster is how behaviorally primed Humans are to find evidence of intelligence in any old thing we find lying around and how utterly inadequate the Turing Test was as even an interesting thing to think about.
Humans *are* ridiculously susceptible to cognitive bias. Turing was not trying to define machine intelligence.
He was showing that what we call intelligence is already a behaviorally-interpreted recursive phenomenon. All we have to judge understanding is what it looks like from outside.
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He was showing that what we call intelligence is already a behaviorally-interpreted recursive phenomenon. All we have to judge understanding is what it looks like from outside.