Tuesday, April 11, 2023

106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient

In this episode, I chat to Robert Long about AI sentience. Robert is a philosopher that works on issues related to the philosopy of mind, cognitive science and AI ethics. He is currently a philosophy fellow at the Centre for AI Safety in San Francisco. He completed his PhD at New York University. We do a deep dive on the concept of sentience, why it is important, and how we can tell whether an animal or AI is sentient. We also discuss whether it is worth taking the topic of AI sentience seriously.

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  1. Couldn't agree with you more, although I deal little with probability---or no more than I must anyhow. The megalog continuing over AI is getting tiresome. The intermittent resurgence of Panpsychism is another distraction. So, carry on. Complexity may be the end of us all, sooner rather than later.

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