People speculate about whether large language models are alive or conscious, but apparently do not similarly speculate about consciousness in systems with similar architectures that do not process language.

“People speculate about whether, you know,”

“LLMs are alive,”

“but you don't speculate or alive,”

“you know, conscious,”

“but you don't hear people speculating about whether systems with similar architectures that don't work with language are conscious.”

“So nobody's asking if like alpha fold is conscious.”