Comment by gundmc
14 days ago
I interpret it more as "maybe consciousness is not meaningfully different than sophisticated token generation."
In a way it's a reframing of the timeless philosophical debate around determinism vs free will.
14 days ago
I interpret it more as "maybe consciousness is not meaningfully different than sophisticated token generation."
In a way it's a reframing of the timeless philosophical debate around determinism vs free will.
Maybe, but it's a bit like taking the output of a Magic 8-ball as evidence for panpsychism. "Maybe all matter is conscious! What do you think, Magic 8-ball?" "Signs point to yes"
that is, if you train an LLM on a bunch of text that is almost certainly going to include stuff about sentient robots, that it sometimes announces that it's a sentient robot is not evidence that it is one