Raw LLM Responses

+WingedWyrm What if I replace the person using the book with a weak AI. The weak AI gets an input, checks the book, gives an output. It would be just as able to fool the people outside of the room. If you were to argue that combination is a person, then why wouldn't any combination of weak AI and a book be considered a person? When does the information in the book make the combination a person? Do we need to give weak AI rights since when ever we arbitrary combine them with a book they become a person? I'd argue that the combination of a book and a weak AI cannot constitute a person. This is because it is very clear that the combination isn't self aware. If I were to ask if it was conscious, the weak AI could look it up in the book and find the output to be "I think therefore I am". Yet neither the weak AI nor the book thinks. The book's output for the input could just as easily be "high explosive lumpy lasers" and the weak AI wouldn't know the difference nor have the ability to know or care about the difference. In actuality the entirety of the book's outputs could be replaced with gibberish and the way the system works would be no different. Would you consider the gibberish outputting room to be a person? If not then why should the one that gives out words be different if to the system itself there is no difference? If yes it is considered a person, then does any system that replies a unique output for a unique input constitute a person, if that is the case then any computer could be considered a person if I make it a simple algorithm that gives a unique piece of gibberish every time for a unique piece of input. In essence it would turn an encryption software constitute a person. +KohuGaly I would say the answer lies in consciousness and self awareness. A typical human sees his or herself as more than input and output. They see themselves to have feelings and emotions that aren't required to produce an output. Why do I have to actually hurt when I feel pain, when I could just give the output of feeling pain without being aware of what pain is. In actuality I don't know if anyone else other than myself I conscious or self aware. I merely assume they are. This is because I'm aware that if they were conscious they wouldn't know that I was. And since they are sufficiently similar to me, I have no reason to think otherwise about their consciousness. Now the question to why we have the feeling of consciousness is unknown. Until we figure it out, we won't have a way to describe why one system of inputs and outputs is a person, and an other not. Also random question how do I correctly do the +name thing?