Microsoft researcher uses goats in Age of Empires II to simulate LLM logic

Adrian de Wynter of Microsoft and The University of York rebuilt an LLM using goats and NAND gates in Age of Empires II to demonstrate that LLM behavior can be mimicked without sentience. The simulation shows human-like interaction does not imply consciousness. The experiment challenges assumptions about AI sentience by showing anthropomorphism does not equate to cognition.