ok so this is difficult to explain: the difference between consciousness and whatever LLMs are doing is that computers lack the experience that living beings make. the reason why LLMs will never be reliable, i.e. not make grave mistakes, is because they lack a concept of responsibility, i.e. they are careless because there’s nothing on the line for them. they don’t know what it’s like to make a mistake and be wiped out from existence, trained over billions of years to not make these mistakes. meanwhile, living beings do. and that’s the difference.
I can’t define consciousness but I am not spiritual in any way and I beleive it arises from some physical process. If a computer can be conscious it would need to have an analogous process somewhere in it’s hardware. This would mean that consciouness would not be limited to LLMs, and the mathematical process in, for example, excel, could also be argued to be consciousness. Does that make sense?