Tweet Probes If LLMs On Networked Human Brains Could Gain Consciousness
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Pilgrim@curiouschris36TECH
@eigenrobot immensely cynical perspective that the modern worldview of the people building LLMs results in less consciousness than a random assortment of disembodied brains.
Koko (literal gorilla)@Mark68002312TECH
@eigenrobot I said “less” out of disgust. It’s still zero, but a kind of zero I want to nip in the bud.
EigenrobotTECH
if you build an LLM and run it on computers build out of networked disembodied human brains in vats would it be more capable of consciousness than running the same LLM in silica
EigenrobotTECH
if you set up a disembodied human brain in a vat with its eyeballs just floating around and stuff and its definitely still alive is that conscious