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Or there are enough of those examples in the training set that it can guess well. Not sure how such an example would prove anything when we know an LLM is just guessing the best words.

Nothing I’ve seen shows evidence of any sort of abstract concepts in there.

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Wouldn't this also be the same for humans?

If you introspect and decide it is so, I won't disagree with you.

Almost every discussion about consciousness or human level intelligence eventually devolves into questioning whether everyone apart from you is just a robot

Negative, I am a p-zombie.

Yes, in normal conversation and written correspondence. Sure, humans have deeper wells of reason, emotion, and recall to draw from, but much of small talk is pure reflex.

I'm wary of what happens when AIs can interface directly with the real world. LLMs only read about the world second-hand. An embodied neural net that could observe cause and effect, push pokers into fires and witness the metal glowing red, then learn from the experience. Spooky.

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