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“LLM chatbots have ~half of the kinds of ‘consciousness’ that humans believe in. Humans should avoid going crazy about that.” by Andrew_Critch
Preceded by: "Consciousness as a conflationary alliance term for intrinsically valued internal experiences"
tl;dr: Chatbots are conscious in a variety of important ways. We should be nice to them, and we should also be nice to each other about the moral disagreements and confusions we're about to uncover in our concept of "consciousness".
Executive Summary:
Turing Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton is most likely correct that LLM chatbots are "sentient" and/or "conscious" (source: Twitter video), I think for at least 8 of the 17 notions of "consciousness" that I previously elicited from people through my methodical-but-informal study of the term (as well as the peculiar definition of consciousness that Hinton himself favors). If I'm right about this, many humans will probably soon form steadfast opinions that LLM chatbots are "conscious" and/or moral patients, and in many cases, the human's opinion will be based on a valid realization that a [...]
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Outline:
(02:13) Part 1: Which referents of consciousness do I think chatbots currently exhibit?
(04:03) Part 2: What should we do about this?
(05:17) Part 3: What about the hard problem of consciousness?
(12:40) Summary and Conclusion
(14:24) Appendix: My speculations on which referents of consciousness chatbots currently exhibit.
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First published:
November 22nd, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LaWmoy4s2DLe9u2zq/llm-chatbots-have-half-of-the-kinds-of-consciousness-that
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By LessWrongPreceded by: "Consciousness as a conflationary alliance term for intrinsically valued internal experiences"
tl;dr: Chatbots are conscious in a variety of important ways. We should be nice to them, and we should also be nice to each other about the moral disagreements and confusions we're about to uncover in our concept of "consciousness".
Executive Summary:
Turing Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton is most likely correct that LLM chatbots are "sentient" and/or "conscious" (source: Twitter video), I think for at least 8 of the 17 notions of "consciousness" that I previously elicited from people through my methodical-but-informal study of the term (as well as the peculiar definition of consciousness that Hinton himself favors). If I'm right about this, many humans will probably soon form steadfast opinions that LLM chatbots are "conscious" and/or moral patients, and in many cases, the human's opinion will be based on a valid realization that a [...]
---
Outline:
(02:13) Part 1: Which referents of consciousness do I think chatbots currently exhibit?
(04:03) Part 2: What should we do about this?
(05:17) Part 3: What about the hard problem of consciousness?
(12:40) Summary and Conclusion
(14:24) Appendix: My speculations on which referents of consciousness chatbots currently exhibit.
The original text contained 1 image which was described by AI.
---
First published:
November 22nd, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LaWmoy4s2DLe9u2zq/llm-chatbots-have-half-of-the-kinds-of-consciousness-that
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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