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Terry Sejnowski: NeurIPS and the Future of AI
Eye On A.I.
Is There a Difference Between Consciousness and Language?
Linguistics professor Dave Chalmers says it's not a binary decision if you're conscious or not. Dogs have dog consciousness, whales have whale consciousness, he said. And they're all adapted to whatever their environment is and their social structures,. So why not these large language models that they have a different kind of consciousness from all the rest of us? It's just a different one. But the real difference is that we can go in and examine it. We have access to every single unit, every single weight, every single activity pattern for every input - right? And it's just it's open. It's a mathematical function. Mathematicians know about functions. They can help us
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