Here are three interesting intuitions (or maybe evan data points) worth chewing on:
Large language models are smarter than squirrels.
Large language models are not conscious.
Squirrels are conscious.
I feel—without having formulate a rigorous argument—that these three data points rather nicely support Ben Page’s thesis that computation-without-consciousness is what we would expect non-theistic evolution to yield.
#1 isn't true if smartness requires consciousness (a la the chinese room argument).
ReplyDeleteTrue. I am thinking of smartness as a behavioral and computational sophistication kind of thing.
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