Do Large Language Models have Consciousness?

Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin)

All Times are in Central European Time (CET)

Title: Do Large Language Models have Consciousness?

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss both the issue of whether LLMs in general think or more in general have intelligence and Chalmers’ (2023) claims that unlike present large language models (LLMs), an updated version of them (sophisticated LLM+s) may reasonably have phenomenal consciousness.

First of all, I will claim that it is quite likely that LLMs think, but this does not depend on the kind of processes that they undergo. Moreover, I will sketch some assessments and main consequences that such claims plausibly have with respect to issues that Chalmers himself greatly contributed to make popular in recent philosophy of mind: the hard problem of (phenomenal) consciousness and the relationship between that form of consciousness and its physical basis, the plausibility of panpsychism, the zombie hypothesis.

Online at: https://unisi.webex.com/meet/salvatore.pistoiareda

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