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Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'

Filippo Silver badge

Re: Definition

Okay, but a language model is nothing but lots and lots of statistics. That's literally all it is. It has a black-box nature in what exactly the weights encode, but we do know for sure that it is a big statistical model.

If we accept the notion that it may be sentient, then we are accepting the notion that sentience may be nothing more than a scaled-up statistics engine. Which is really rather bleak.

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