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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
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For the record, at least one Nobel Prize winner disagrees about LLM sentience
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw
A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:
Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems
James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists
Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s
Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories
Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS
Just winning a Nobel doesn't automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.