Comment by whakim

I understand the point being made - that LLMs lack any "inner life" and that by ignoring this aspect of what makes us human we've really moved the goalposts on what counts as AGI. However, I don't think mirrors and LLMs are all that similar except in the very abstract sense of an LLM as a mirror to humanity (what does that even mean, practically speaking?) I also don't feel that the author adequately addressed the philosophical zombie in the room - even if LLMs are just stochastic parrots, if its output was totally indistinguishable from a human's, would it matter?