Thank you for your kind words, and sorry for not having given proper response yet, am really swamped. Currently at the wonderful workshop “Investigating consciousness in animals and artificial systems: A comparative perspective” https://philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/2023/02/01/cfp-workshop-investigating-consciousness-in-animals-and-artificial-systems-a-comparative-perspective-june-2023/ (online as well), on the talk on potential for consciousness in multi-modal LLMs, and encountered this paper, Abdou et al. 2021 “Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color” https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06129 Have not had time to look at properly yet (my to read pile rose considerably today in wonderful ways) but think might be relevant for your question, so wanted to quickly share.
Thank you for your kind words, and sorry for not having given proper response yet, am really swamped. Currently at the wonderful workshop “Investigating consciousness in animals and artificial systems: A comparative perspective” https://philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/2023/02/01/cfp-workshop-investigating-consciousness-in-animals-and-artificial-systems-a-comparative-perspective-june-2023/ (online as well), on the talk on potential for consciousness in multi-modal LLMs, and encountered this paper, Abdou et al. 2021 “Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color” https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06129 Have not had time to look at properly yet (my to read pile rose considerably today in wonderful ways) but think might be relevant for your question, so wanted to quickly share.