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Raphaël Millière on large language models

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The Importance of Language Models for Consciousness

We don't have a good principle, scientific way to arbitrate this question of whether language models have conscious experiences. So we shouldn't discount them just because they can speak. They probably can experience a lot. But based on this evidence, I would say it's extremely unlikely that current systems are conscious. Could they be conscious, become conscious? Presumably yes,. but I don't think we're there yet.

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