David Chalmers
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David Chalmers
@davidchalmers42
philosopher@NYU. consciousness, reality+, life, the universe, and everything.
IIT has many problems. but "pseudoscience" is like dropping a nuclear bomb over a regional dispute. it's disproportionate, unsupported by good reasoning, and does vast collateral damage to the field far beyond IIT. as in vietnam: "we had to destroy the field in order to save it."- REALITY+ is out in paperback today, with a new cover on the US edition
- who saw LLMs coming? e.g. decades (or even 5+ years) ago, X said: when machine learning systems have enough compute and data to learn to predict text well, this will be a primary path to near-human-level AI.
- this clip of me talking about AI consciousness seems to have gone wide. it's from a @worldscifest panel where @bgreene asked for "yes or no" opinions (not arguments!) on the issue. if i were to turn the opinion into an argument, it might go something like this: (1) biology canDavid Chalmers says it is possible for an AI system to be conscious because the brain itself is a machine that produces consciousness, so we know this is possible in principle
00:00 - what are the most important intellectual breakthroughs (new ideas) in AI in the last ten years?
- behavior(+) without consciousness: philosophical zombie consciousness without affect: philosophical vulcan conscious thought without senses: philosophical ...?
- the video for my #NeurIPS2022 talk on "could a large language model be conscious?" is now online. i've given versions of the same material at adelaide, deepmind, NYU, and the #LearningSalon, but this is the best version. written version coming soon! nips.cc/virtual/2022/i…
- Replying to @PessoaBraindon't listen to chalmer! he's a fake and a charlatan who is exploiting apostrophe confusion to get credit for all my ideas!
- happy birthday to ned block (@de_dicto, nedblock.us), my wonderful friend, colleague, and partner in crime, who is (unbelievably) 80 today.
- the video for my talk last week on "are large language models sentient?" is now online. youtube.com/watch?v=-BcuCm…
- so, what's the best reason to think large language models are not sentient? more precisely: what's the best candidate for X such that LLMs clearly lack X and X is required for sentience?
- i'd like to publish "could a large language model be conscious?", the written version of my 2022 neurips talk, before it's entirely obsolete. any suggestions for where? it's a little informal for an academic journal and a little academic for general media.
