Imagine being a fucking AI exec and misunderstanding your own software so badly that you think it can be conscious. And then trying to argue about that with the pope (who believes consciousness = having a soul + having a mind capable of self concept, I assume).
Either:
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He agrees with pope's definition, and thinks llms have souls (crazy and dumb)
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thinks the pope should change his definition of consciousness to include things without souls (good luck)
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holds either 1 or 2 AND believes that being able to make textual inferences are sufficient for consciousness (dumb)
If he believes 3, he would have to believe that google search autocomplete from 2010 was conscious, because that is the same exact concept as llms, just less sophisticated.