Ah but have you tried burning a few trillion dollars in front of the painting? That might make a difference!

Since we don’t actually know what consciousness is or how it starts thats a pretty dumb way to look at things. It may not come from LLMs but who knows when or if it will pop up on one ai chain or another.

As long as we can’t even define sapience in biological life, where it resides and how it works, it’s pointless to try and apply those terms to AI. We don’t know how natural intelligence works, so using what little we know about it to define something completely different is counterintuitive.

Fair and flawless comparison. I’ve got nothing to add.

I don’t expect it. I’m going to talk to the AI and nothing else until my psychosis hallucinates it.

And not even a good painting but an inconsistent one, whose eyes follow you around the room, and occasionally tries to harm you.

The first life did not possess a sentient consciousness. Yet here you are reading this now. No one even trued to direct that. Quite the opposite, everything has been trying to kill you from the very start.

Except … being alive is well defined. But consciousness is not. And we do not even know where it comes from.

Good showering!