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#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious

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Are You Conscious?

There's still a really hard problem of knowing how to apply this to systems very different from our own. How do we know what the lowest possible bound is? That seems to some people that it's something like in principle you couldn't answer. And I just want to give a brief, you know, concession to like illusionist. Like lots of progress needs to be made before we have any theories about whether AI sentience is conscious.

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