> court ruling a year or two ago that concluded that scraping public linkedin profiles is legal

Forgot about this. I may be dating myself with problems of the past.

Still imagine they're doing their best to make it really hard to do, though.

Good luck crawling Linkedin. Not saying it's impossible, but you'll definitely be making your life difficult if you try to publish a tool that is scraping from LI.

Reproducing language is a very different problem than true thought or self-awareness, is why.

LLMs are no more likely to become sentient than a linear regression or random forest model. Frankly, they're no more likely than a peanut butter sandwich to achieve sentience.

Is it possible that we've bungled our study of peanut butter sandwiches so badly that we may have missed some incredible sentience-granting mechanism? I guess, but it's so absurd and infinitesimal it's not worth considering or entertaining practically.

The black box argument is intellectually lazy. We have a better understanding of what is happening in LLMs and other models than most clickbaity headlines imply.

Nah. Negatives are a lot easier to prove than positives in this case. LLMs aren't able to produce sentience for the same reason a peanut butter sandwich can't produce sentience.

Just because I don't know positively how to achieve eternal youth, doesn't invalidate the fact that I'm quite confident it isn't McDonalds.

None of the models or frameworks developed to date. None are even close.

Yeah, that quote is completely irrelevant.

The bottom line is that LLMs are technically and completely incapable of producing sentience, regardless of 'intent'. Anyone claiming otherwise is fundamentally misunderstanding the models involved.

This is also where I'd start.

You can set up outlook rules to sort inbound requests into different folders or tag them by keyword, too. Id still recommend doing that final step of copying in the appropriate response manually though.

Was going to say this. I have some experience in this area from industry and theres still a lot of handcrafted business rules that go into chatbot development.

There is epigenetics, microbiome, and some other stuff as well.