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106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient

Philosophical Disquisitions

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The Evolution of Large Language Models

"I think we have to be very careful with the self reports of these models," he says. "It seems like consciousness and sentience have certain roles that they fulfill in biological organisms" It would be kind of surprising if given what large language models are doing, it was useful for them to develop something like sentience, she adds.

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