Raw LLM Responses

Absolutely zero chance current computers with Von Neumann architecture or derivatives are conscious or sentient. It's just bits being passed around and modified per an instruction set encoded by other bits. The idea that a certain program, no matter how sophisticated (ie. a neural network with billions of parameters) will suddenly gain consciousness because you've run a magic sequence of bits through the CPU logic gates is ludicrous. Computers don't have a means to actually understand what those bits represent. Giving meaning to symbols is fundamental to consciousness and comprehension, and computers utterly lack this ability. See the Chinese Room thought experiment.