Bret Weinstein says a human child is basically an LLM -- ingesting language, experimenting, and learning from feedback. We've now replicated that process in machines, only faster and at scale. “The idea that they will become conscious and we won't know is… highly likely.”

.@BretWeinstein on The Tucker Carlson Show:

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one of the big problems of our era is that we don't platform people to talk about their area of expertise anymore, we just platform them to talk about anything & everything

Yep, they probably won't see colors the way we do, we already see long from thinking. Imagine an LLM has enough memory to think for weeks or months - no one knows what will happen, probably a cultural explosion (=agentic explosion) like humans had

I call BS. Not for some dualist, metaphysical reason. It's because LLMs can only potentially replicate a handful of systems that consciousness is dependent on. Most people don't understand how LLMs work, much less consciousness.

Most people don't understand how a human child works.

it's still in incredible to me that we discovered learning, and how to make machines learn human intelligence has been solved rather easily

What nonsense. I have secondhand embarrassment for this dude.

What a total fruitcake. This is embarrassing.

Analogies were a mistake and we should outlaw all of them.

AI-models aren't conscious at all! In fact, Large Language Models don’t even possess intelligence! Since we usually have the stubborn habit of anthropomorphizing everything, a surprising number of people believe that AI-models are capable of thinking, having intentions, or even emotions. In reality, however, even the term Artificial Intelligence is misleading.