GPT4 is very likely partly conscious, in some senses of that word but not others.
What do you mean by “conscious”? After spending a long time reading about the science and philosophy of consciousness, I think most questions about consciousness will be resolved by carefully defining what you mean.
“How does (some type of) consciousness work” questions usually require an explanation in terms of neural information processing. Those are harder to come by, and I haven’t gotten around to writing mine down since it’s never seemed useful to either my professional or personal life. But maybe with AGI creeping toward human-style consciousness it will be.
It definitely has a bunch of complex and subtle distributed representations of what we’d call “concepts”. Which is part of the human conscious experience and our cognitive abilities.
GPT4 is very likely partly conscious, in some senses of that word but not others.
What do you mean by “conscious”? After spending a long time reading about the science and philosophy of consciousness, I think most questions about consciousness will be resolved by carefully defining what you mean.
“How does (some type of) consciousness work” questions usually require an explanation in terms of neural information processing. Those are harder to come by, and I haven’t gotten around to writing mine down since it’s never seemed useful to either my professional or personal life. But maybe with AGI creeping toward human-style consciousness it will be.
It definitely has a bunch of complex and subtle distributed representations of what we’d call “concepts”. Which is part of the human conscious experience and our cognitive abilities.