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Jun 29Liked by johan michalove

I don’t think that large language, models or AI in general, have the ability to become self-aware and sentient. If you are prerequisites that are missing are:

Entropy as defined by the third law of thermodynamics

Suffering, one of the unifying factors that defines us as humans and creatures in general across all breeds and species is the natural occurrence to of suffering undergo suffering ;

It is enlightening to read number 13 of the Tao de Ching;

13

Accept disgrace willingly. Accept misfortune as the human condition.

What do you mean by "Accept disgrace willingly"?

Accept being unimportant.

Do not be concerned with loss or gain.

This is called "accepting disgrace willingly."

What do you mean by "Accept misfortune as the human condition"?

Misfortune comes from having a body. Without a body, how could there be misfortune?

Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things.

Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

https://eheart.com/TAO/TTC/TTCchapters-small.pdf

Copyright Jane English

In fact, this idea of having a body and suffering, because of it is such a part of our natural landscape that AI and other artificial thought forms can never experience at least not today . Think what we see is an imposter and a simulacrum of intelligence simply put these are imitating human thought, but are not producing human thought sure maybe they could pass Turing test.

But I think we would probably all admit that test is a bit outdated isn’t it creatures happening affinity to wanting to survive so let’s take an large model anyone of your chart choice with Chat gpt or something else? systematically start powering down parts of its environment. Will it take action to try and survive or will it just talk to you until you die or until it stops?

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