Your comment brings up the challenge of defining intelligence and sentience, especially with these new LLMs shaking things up, even for HN commenters.
It's tough to define these terms in a way that includes only humans and excludes other life forms or even LLMs. This might mean we either made up these concepts, or we're not alone in having these traits.
Without a solid definition, how can we say LLMs aren't intelligent? If we make a definition that includes both us and LLMs, would we accept them as intelligent? And could we even exclude ourselves?
We need clear definitions to talk about the intelligence and sentience of LLMs, AI, or any life forms. But finding those definitions is hard, and it might clash with our human ego. Discussing these terms without definitions feels like a waste of time.
Still, your Descartes reference reminds us that our understanding of human experiences keeps changing, and our current definitions might not be spot-on.
It's tough to define these terms in a way that includes only humans and excludes other life forms or even LLMs. This might mean we either made up these concepts, or we're not alone in having these traits.
Without a solid definition, how can we say LLMs aren't intelligent? If we make a definition that includes both us and LLMs, would we accept them as intelligent? And could we even exclude ourselves?
We need clear definitions to talk about the intelligence and sentience of LLMs, AI, or any life forms. But finding those definitions is hard, and it might clash with our human ego. Discussing these terms without definitions feels like a waste of time.
Still, your Descartes reference reminds us that our understanding of human experiences keeps changing, and our current definitions might not be spot-on.
(this comment was cleaned up with GPT-4 :D)