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  • I’m not nervous about LLMs in that regard. I think sentience will have to be a biological phenomenon. I think people who were hopeful that consciousness happens spontaneously with enough processing power were wrong. Currently we can clone biological things quite well but we haven’t managed to give something the spark of life without biological input.

    I also think humans are more than happy to anthropomorphize everything. There’s the famous example of telling someone the name of a pencil then snapping it in half. This makes me worried that people will be more than willing to treat LLMs as conscious regardless of their lack of mind.














  • I’ve really enjoyed Busuu (created by Chegg, a US company) for learning eng—> spanish and eng —>german. Their free version has annoying ads but it does give you a chance to test the interface. The yearly subscription fee isn’t bad for the premium version that gets rid of ads. I’ve taken traditional classes and also used various apps like duolingo. Busuu strikes a happy medium between immersion and clear, digestible grammar explanation. I also like their review area (for vocab and grammar topics).

    The platform doesn’t support Vietnamese yet but has chinese, japanese, and spanish of the ones you mentioned.