alt Hacker News> Dumping tokens into a pile of linear algebra doesn't magically create sentience.
More precisely: we don't know which linear algebra in particular magically creates sentience.
Whole universe appears to follow laws that can be written as linear algebra. Our brains are sometimes conscious and aware of their own thoughts, other times they're asleep, and we don't know why we sleep.
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"Our brains are governed by physics": true
"This statistical model is governed by physics": true
"This statistical model is like our brain": what? no
You don't gotta believe in magic or souls or whatever to know that brains are much much much much much much much much more complex than a pile of statistics. This is like saying "oh we'll just put AI data centers on the moon". You people have zero sense of scale lol
> we don't know why we sleep
Garbage collection, for one thing. Transfer from short-term to long-term memory is another. There's undoubtedly more processes optimized for or through sleep.