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Remote for the vinyl player, obviously

Why do you disagree with that? No, that's a stupid question. How do you disagree with that? Can you elaborate your point?

Complexity for one. A cramped foot has an influence on the brain, as does apparently the gut bacteria. Focusing on the brain is a starting point and we don't even understand that that well.

If someone perfectly simulated your entire brain, would that digital brain be sentient?

I don't know. It could be. For now I don't think so. Are you comparing that to an LLM? That would be like comparing the paths of snail slime to a comic. One could compare story lines and art styles to something that just isn't there. And never will be.

What is sentience?

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations (wiki). A word not based on a clear understanding, but rather an attempt to categorize. Nonetheless, an LLM doesn't experience anything. It uses pattern recognition and human provided categorization to try and create different stuff. All in the confines of the recognitions.

I think it's strange to say that AI will never be sentient.

It's why it's important to distinguish between "AI" and "LLM". AI, as an AGI, is something we might be able to build one day. LLMs might be a step on the way to this. But not the way they are now.

Okay, great. AI as you describe exist, but are still things. Not sentient beings. Never will be. My point is the only people that think that they could be, are people that humanize pencils. Or gods. Or other things.

So yes, AI exist. But not as sentient beings.

Are you referring to LLMs, as I was? If not, please provide resources.

I like the explanation of AI with a pencil and googly eyes. Give the pencil some googly eyes and call it Mohammed, or Carl, and talk to someone with it, using ventriloquism or something, doesn't have to be good. They will form an emotional connection to the pencil and react, some even violently, if the pencil is broken midconversation in front of them.

That is the reason why people think AI is a thing. That is also why people think a god is a thing. They are wrong in both cases.

Gods are never real in a sense of natural science, they have no body, no voice; they aren't existant. They exist as an idea, a thought people have.

Gods never work in the physical world, none of them have a will, they can only be used to steer people through the people's thoughts.

Another level: The id would be the part ordering more and more expensive drinks, so it's preferred by barkeepers.

I am glad they asked

Cool to know, I really didn't before. Nice catch!

When you get the instructions RIGHT for self love

Well, it is freshly made.