[ExI] Ben Goertzel on Large Language Models

[Jason Resch]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 7:28 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 4:59 PM Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Gordon,
>> Given Goertzel believes that we can reach AGI in a few years would you
>> simply concede that when we reach this level of intelligence the AGI would
>> be conscious if it behaves like a conscious agent or you will still move
>> the goal post?
>>
>
> I have never in my life doubted that we will have AGI or that some AI will
> pass the Turing test, so I don't know what you mean by moving any goal
> posts.
>
> As for whether any AI will have subjective experience -- what I mean by
> consciousness -- I do doubt that, at least on digital computers as we
> understand them today. I certainly do not believe that GPT-4 or any other
> LLM is conscious.
>

How certain is that belief?

Jason

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