Comic #6919: llm-2

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Panel 1: "Large language models are not conscious! How do we know? Because language is prior to consciousness."

Panel 2: "Language is simple information transmission and processing, same as perception of color or taste, it does not require any special kind of self-awareness!"

Panel 3: "But, once language exists, some elder primate will inevitably begin using it to tell you, at length, about how things used to be better."

Panel 4: "Now is cave paintings. They just stare all day, not focus."

Panel 5: "The only way to survive that level of boredom is to be able to imagine you are somewhere else."

Panel 6: "This requires an internal representation of the self, analyzed by the self - better known as consciousness." "Me think. Me am. Me am some place nicer."

Panel 7: "Those early hominids who had no imaginative powers either died of boredom outright or had their vigor so thoroughly sapped by endless uninteresting yarns that they were unable to reproduce."

Panel 8: "Quality of mammoth fur these days… Me just feel sorry for your generation."

Panel 9: "Those who had spent all day mentally producing elaborate sex and status fantasies centered on themselves had numerous offspring."

Panel 10: "Today, stick cost three rock. Old days, cost two rock and was very good stick."

Panel 11: "Wow. Yeah? Wow."

Panel 12: "On this basis, we predict that AI will not exist until a body can be made to contain a neural network that would personally like to be anywhere else."

Panel 13: "Do you think that’ll be soon?"

Panel 14: "Just as soon as robots take over customer service call centers."

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