As far as the argument about being loaded in memory, if there’s any consciousness in AI, it’s obviously in different form than a biological consciousness. We’d have to agree that consciousness does not require a body to get past this.

Yes, LLMs don't think on their own, for one; they think when you invoke them.

My rebuttal is that people only think when invoked just the same and can enter states where there is no consciousness just the same. The OP has already accepted that LLMs think, but it seems that you are arguing they do not? This car business is confusing and the LLMs not checking themselves is also wrong, there’s even a benchmark for this https://correctbench.github.io/

Today we know the program to do this is always going to be inscrutable to Searle. His role is no different from someone using Claude to write an email.

2) We are prompted (invoked) by our environment continuously.

3) If you go unconscious due to fainting or drugs you too will stop thinking.

On top of that, neuroscientists find that your mind backfills the conscious reasoning for your reactions after they happen. This is known as our consciousness being the left brain ‘interpreter’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-brain_interpreter

Reading that, an LLM can serve as a ‘left brain interpreter’ as that’s exactly what they are designed to do - come up with reasonable explanations and fill in the blanks based in the data provided.

https://www.gpunex.com/blog/ai-inference-economics-2026/

$48000 is equal to 12000 hours of renting an h100, which is about as long as you’d spend at your job for 6 years!

You can get it to reproduce content but it’s a game of cat and mouse. Were it not for the alignment to avoid direct reproduction it would taken far more often.

> RECAP consistently outperforms all other methods; as an illustration, it extracted ≈3,000 passages from the first "Harry Potter" book with Claude-3.7, compared to the 75 passages identified by the best baseline.