Debate Heats Up Over Whether LLMs Are Conscious

Chemist Lee Cronin argues that calling LLMs conscious is meaningless, while critics counter that serious debate should focus on functional properties like global broadcasting and metacognition displayed by frontier models.

2026-09-01 ~ 2026-09-01 · 2 related posts

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