Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should ‘stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language’
Since large-language models like ChatGPT can generate natural language responses that appear human-like in tone, this has led to considerable discussion over whether LLMs might themselves be sentient. At present, there are far more reasons to conclude that AIs are not and will never be conscious. But the idea persists regardless. This is partly because…