So, Richard Dawkins got duped by a bot believing that language models are conscious. A lot has been said about this one more episode of lemoinism, and from a perspective of consciousness studies, Matthew Sheffield gets to the point in his article on Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion where he writes about how mind is not something you have, but something you do: “minds are processes continually enacted by our embodied perceptions and responses”.In his piece in the New York Times, Leif Weatherby argues that this illusion of mind-paredolia stems from the novelty of the cultural artifacts synthesized by AI, which directly relates to my view of LLMs as Interpolatable Archives:The bot is a complex mathematical function performing statistical operations on data, but the output is stories, images and memes — the very stuff of culture. (...) an A.I. model doesn’t need a mind to be a serious cybersecurity threat (...) the reason it’s so striking is precisely that it doesn’t require a…
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