I am not claiming that LLMs are self-aware, but that the problem is more difficult than it seems on its surface. (Also, I am not a professor)
@plinz
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LLM Consciousness and Causality: Beyond Temporal Connection
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The LLM is as much the product of an unbroken series of events "connected to the beginning of time", whatever you take that to mean. But that does not constitute any obvious causal relationship for the nature of either's consciousness.
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Large Companies Prioritize LLM Utility Over Mystification
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In my observation, none of the large companies is interested in mystifying LLMs. They want to sell a useful product, not a debate about metaphysics. Also, human culture depends on the exchange of ideas, not their taxation
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Knowing and Thinking as Individual vs Collective Activities
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I doubt that knowing and thinking are activities that can be performed well in an unspecified first person plural
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Reductionism and Holism Need Precise Definitions
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I don't think that the word "reductionist" carries a lot of useful meaning (neither does "holistic"). You need to be more specific if you want to make an argument.
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Grounding LLMs with Context: Does Sensory Data Change Arguments?
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If you ground the LLM consistently in a context (for instance by constrained them with sensory data, a personality model and memories of all previous interactions), does your argument change?
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Simulation vs Simulacrum: Causal Structure in AI Systems
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Arguably, there is a difference between a simulation (recreation of a causal structure on a different substrate) and a simulacrum (recreating observables without recreating the causal structure)
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Understanding AI Ontological Status and Machine Consciousness
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Do you have the impression that you observe substantial changes in the degree to which most people comprehend the ontological status of your experience, or are you just reporting that you found a different twitter timeline?
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AI Consciousness Binary State Self Awareness Variation
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My own consciousness is quite binary (I am either conscious or unconscious), even though my content and degree of self awareness varies.
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Anterograde Amnesia and LLM Consciousness: Memory Context Analysis
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Anterograde amnesia (inability to form memories beyond the working memory context) does not make a person unconscious; conversely, the ability to retain the prompt/response context should not change the consciousness status of an LLM.