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After thinking a bit about it, I think this is where our disconnect comes from:
Because it's a program that has been trained to be a program
I'd define it as it is a traditionally programmed program - be it with a lot of complicated math to make it useful - as the code is static and separate from the training outcomes.
All the "learning" is captured in the dataset (the weights) and, post-versioning freeze, in peripheral systems (skills, memory, system prompts that guide a path by manipulating input into the program, pre-sorting activations.)
That's why I have to stand by my point that for this to become closer to a human or an organism, the code has to be replaced by something that is mutating and self-learning.
When that "launches", there better be a grounding in consciousness or we risk ending up with a self-replicating, evolving swarm of intelligences that will probably cause a bit of a crisis. Luckily, we don't have that. Also, I hope that tools remain tools. It's nice to be able to offload some work.
That makes me wonder how much self-learning is required for humanness because if it's a gate for humanness, it's probably a threshold. Otherwise, more self-learning would mean more humanness and younger people would be more human because they have an easier time learning. I'm not sure it's a gate to consciousness, but I accept that self-learning is an important part of humanness.
Fair. I did not read the paper but in the article they do hedge quite a bit.
Yes. For some reason I expect consciousness to hitch a ride as these things get more capable, because I believe consciousness evolved in humans to support our capabilities.
Generally, I think humans are so amazing that when we want something like highly capable or conscious machines, it's only a matter of time.
Because it's a program that has been trained to be a program and not programmed in the way your or I program something. It's programmed more like our genes are trained over millennia by our environment or like we train our brains by interacting with our environment. I feel myself reaching though so I know I haven't thought about this enough.