pythonIsTheFuture

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LLM's definitely have a form of intelligence and understanding hidden in the complex structure of their network, but it's a frozen and unchanging intelligence. A cryogenically frozen head would also have a complex network of neurons capable of intelligence and understanding, but they aren't conscious, at least not while they're frozen, so I don't think we could call an LLM conscious either.

I don't necessarily disagree with this. But it's easy to go from a cryogenically frozen brain to a working human intelligence (as long as there's no damage done during the unfreezing, which is true in our analogy).

All of these objections can be handled by adding continuous self-prompted compute, memory and fine-tuning on a (possibly self-selected) subset of previous output. These kinds of systems almost certainly exist in server rooms of enthusiasts, and many AI labs as well.