Comment by bradley13 2 days ago
But do you know what it means to know?
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.
Yes, that's my fall back as well. If it receives zero instructions, will it take any action?
Helen Keller famously said that before she had language (the first word of which was “water”) she had nothing, a void, and the minute she had language, “the whole world came rushing in.”
Perhaps we are not so very different?
I like the sentiment, but reality says otherwise - just watch a newborn baby make it's demands widely known, well before language is a factor.
If I set an LLM in a room by itself what does it do?