[ExI] Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics (video interview)

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 27/03/2023 04:28, Gordon Swobe wrote:
> I think many people conflate intelligence with consciousness. It is 
> reasonable to say GPT-4 acts in highly intelligent ways, but does it 
> have a conscious mind that knows this?  Does it have first person, 
> subjective experience like you and me? Or is it just a mindless 
> digital computation machine that simulates the outward appearance of 
> having inward experience?

So you're asking "Is it a p-zombie?".

In other words "is it something, the existence of which has been shown 
to be impossible?".

Ben