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Raphaël Millière: The Vector Grounding Problem and Self-Consciousness

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Features of Consciousness in Biological Organisms and Language Models

Current language models have features that seem to be lacking in conscious biological organisms, such as recurrent connections./nThe absence of recurrent processing in current language models makes it implausible that they have conscious experience./nConsciousness can be realized in different ways, so the lack of recurrent connections doesn't necessarily rule out consciousness in language models./nSelf-representation can exist without consciousness in artificial systems./nA self-driving car's tracking of its own location can be considered a basic form of non-conscious self-representation./nConsciousness is not required for basic self-representation.

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