Consciousness in its purest form is the lack of thought.

LLM based AI is NOT conscious.
I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this.
I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness.

Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※)

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