Some people think that LLMs are showing signs of consciousness. I’m sure most people here have seen Talkie by now: it has been trained on data up to 1930, which means it doesn’t know what LLMs are, and that it is one. If you ask it what it is, it says it’s a man, and claims to have memories of childhood.
What implications, if any, does this have on the consciousness debate?
I haven’t used Talkie myself. I expect it to claim it is conscious, same as first gen models. The great difficulty is still that we don’t know how much it is parroting and how much it can truly introspect.
Some people think that LLMs are showing signs of consciousness. I’m sure most people here have seen Talkie by now: it has been trained on data up to 1930, which means it doesn’t know what LLMs are, and that it is one. If you ask it what it is, it says it’s a man, and claims to have memories of childhood.
What implications, if any, does this have on the consciousness debate?
I haven’t used Talkie myself. I expect it to claim it is conscious, same as first gen models. The great difficulty is still that we don’t know how much it is parroting and how much it can truly introspect.