It's becoming increasingly head-in-the-sand to make statements like this. Not that I'm saying LLMs are conscious. But to completely ignore the possibility of emergent properties in systems this complex is kind of simple.

i think there's plenty of evidence of emergent behavior in llms already. This is the driving factor for just more parameters and bigger training sets, "If we just make it bigger maybe more unexpected behaviors will emerge".

idk how legit this is but the summary is my point https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682