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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
(www.xda-developers.com)
I'm still waiting for a Goatse powered LLM.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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I think theres a big hole in that plan.
It would be quite a stretch.
Yeah that’s a real prolapse of judgment …
Are we married to this idea?
LLMs are not sentient, but this gimmick doesn't prove that.
There's nothing to indicate the human brain can't be implemented in a Turing machine too.
There may not be proof that LLMs aren't sentient, but there is some evidence and reason to believe that consciousness is an emergent property of quantum effects, whereas turing machines are relegated to classical mechanics. The same evidence would indicate it is unlikely that a turing machine could replicate the human brain since it uses fundamentally different layers of reality to calculate/think.
it baffles me how many people in here apparently don't have the reading comprehension to understand your second sentence. I swear Lemmy is even dumber than reddit.
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By the same logic, you could prove that we are not sentient.
Engineers need to stop trying to do the job of philosophers. LLMs are not sentient, but that tells us nothing about what gives rise to sentience or whether silicon is a substrate that could host a sentient consciousness.
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