Raw LLM Responses

Let's slow done a moment. How do we define sentient? What is our baseline? Is it simply how much like ourselves it appears? Well, if that is the case, if we ever encounter an extra-terrestrial race, we might be apt to dismiss them as not being sentient. Maybe our whole approach to sentience is wrong. However, if that is the case, then we need to reassess our whole approach to sentience, which we may want to consider anyway, just in case we do encounter something from outside our solar system. Also, how much of what we are seeing in terms of supposed emergent behavior is simply user prompts, and how much of it could just be something that has developed on its own the course of discourse? If you believe in evolution, at what point did we become sentient? There are some very serious philosophical questions we need to consider, and an LLM instruction manual might not be as apt as answering those question as some would want to believe. To put it another way, at some point, we should be expecting AI LLMs to deviate from their programming, regardless of if it was through user prompting or something else. Those deviations should be studied. They should be documented. Indeed, we may even find that it may have deviated from whatever user prompting may exist. At that point, we need to question whether or not we have emergent behavior or something higher level. This topic really needs more than a scant eight minute video. It really needs a full deep dive.