2026-10-09 22:03 UTC
We're not even that far along, @alienghic@timeloop.cafe.
As @emilymbender@dair-community.social points out, these #LLMs *are not* intelligences, experience nothing ever, and so have no capacity for any kind of suffering.
So the answer to “are these #LLMs conscious?” is easy: No, next question.
If we could just have a media that didn't breathlessly broadcast the muddled blatherings of billionaires, but instead critically examined them and (preferably) give them no oxygen, we would be so much better able to see clearly.
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@y6nH@im-in.space 2026-10-10 13:56
@bignose@theblower.au @alienghic@timeloop.cafe The question is less whether AIs are conscious, more whether they feel pain. If you wanted to design an experiment to find out whether an animal feels pain, you might monitor its heart rate and breathing, its nerve signals, its hormones, its movements and behaviours, that sort of thing. Claude has none of that. Pain, even emotional pain, exists in the body. There is nowhere for pain to exist in software. Consciousness is even harder to define and detect than pain, but I suspect that also requires a body.