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Neurons are basically fancy transistors, they don't "feel". You'd need the whole bunch of emotional processing unit and a full-blown consciousness stack for that feature.
Sure. But where’s the line? We saw how quickly corporations scaled up LLMs as big and as fast as they could. Once we hit the first real breakthrough in this field, that’s all it takes for these to suddenly become very serious questions.