LLMs Can Generate Coherent Language Without Consciousness
anilkseth · x · 2026-07-17
The article references an insightful analogy regarding LLMs and consciousness: just as flight can be achieved via flapping wings or jet engines, both the human brain and language models can independently learn to output reasonable, logical language through "conscious" and "unconscious" pathways, respectively.
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