Pontifex has a well-reasoned position given the current understanding of the technology and any major assertions require an equally major amount of evidence.

Given how quickly this industry moves, the Magnifica Humanitas has aged amazingly well since its release almost half a year ago, far better than statements by most industry insiders across a broad range. Whether you are a Catholic, another mono- or polytheistic faith, Atheist, Deist, etc. I really recommend it.

It doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes.

It just runs programs."

There may come a time, but it's silly to mistake the LLMs automaton behavior for consciousness.

1. Write a simulation environment like conway's game of life, perhaps a little more complicated. But leave out any human bias.

2. Run it until life starts to form.

3. Wait until the creatures start speaking about the concept of consciousness (of course in their own language, which you'll have to decipher first).

The way Amodei did it is with human bias, so it's not going to work.

  > He decided to go ahead with the event, telling an audience that the company’s research into AI models has found “structures that mirror results from human neuroscience”