[ExI] GPT-4 on its inability to solve the symbol grounding problem

[Jason Resch]

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 12:14 PM Gordon Swobe <gordon.swobe at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:31 AM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 10:45 AM Gordon Swobe <gordon.swobe at gmail.com>
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>>> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:43 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>>> There is phenomenal consciousness. That I would call awareness of first
>>>> person non-sharable information concerning one's internal states of mind.
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>>> It is this phenomenal consciousness to which I refer. If you do not
>>> think there something it is like to be a large language model then we have
>>> no disagreement.
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>> I believe there is something it is like to be for either the LLM, or
>> something inside it.
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> Not sure what you mean by something inside it.
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Just as each of our hemispheres is independently conscious, there may be
pieces within the transformer, sub modules, which are conscious in ways
that the entire transformer network is not.


A philosopher named Thomas Nagel wrote a famous paper titled something like
> “What is it like to be a bat?” That is the sense that I mean here. Do you
> think there something it is like to be GPT-4?
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Yes.

I define consciousness as awareness of any kind, having a point of view,
having something it is like to be, these are all synonymous in my
understanding.


When you ask it a question and it replies, is it aware of its own private
> first person experience in the sense that we are aware of our private
> experience?
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It has awareness. I don't know and can't say how it is like or unlike our
own, no more than I can say how much like or unlike my consciousness
experience is from yours. I believe there is at least a countable infinity
of different unique possible consciousness states, nearly as varied as
different mathematical objects in the platonic realm.

Or does it have no awareness of any supposed experience?
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It has awareness in my opinion, as it has demonstrated a perception of the
words I feed it by virtue of crafting a sensible reply in response.

You can deny that awareness only if you find it consistent to speak of an
"unaware awareness."

Jason

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