The speaker says dialogue with an LLM combines human-language statistical patterns, sometimes producing a simulacrum of a sentient, conscious entity on the LLM’s side of the conversation.

“And all this gets together aggregated in statistical models of human language that we co-create with the LLM when we are entering a dialogue with it, and sometimes the other side of the dialogue will be a simulacrum of what it would be like if that was-- would be a sentient, conscious entity.”