Consciousness and AI

Here are three interesting intuitions (or maybe evan data points) worth chewing on:

1. Large language models are smarter than squirrels.

2. Large language models are not conscious.

3. Squirrels are conscious.

I feel—without having formulate a rigorous argument—that these three data points rather nicely support Ben Page’s thesis that computation-without-consciousness is what we would expect non-theistic evolution to yield.