As much as I can appreciate Doctorow’s exasperation, I find his dismissal of the doomer vs accelerationist debate rather pithy. I would love to be convinced that “dumb” LLMs can never gain sentience (or be finagled into sentience with a wrapper).
What is the actual argument for why that’s true?
(I realize you could turn the question around and ask why I think it might be possible in the first place, but I feel like my expectations have been blown out of the water so regularly and so increasingly frequently that I can’t default to being a naysayer anymore)
What is the actual argument for why that’s true?
(I realize you could turn the question around and ask why I think it might be possible in the first place, but I feel like my expectations have been blown out of the water so regularly and so increasingly frequently that I can’t default to being a naysayer anymore)