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A warning about 'model welfare'

242 points · 701 comments · andsoitis

  1. sobiolite · · focus · HN ↗
    Create an empirically testable theory of biological consciousness and then we can have a meaningful conversation about whether AIs can also have it or not. Until then, this is just so much waffle.
    1. krapp · · focus · HN ↗
      Why is this only ever demanded of people who criticize the premise that LLMs are conscious beings, whereas the people who believe it simply have to gesture vaguely in the direction of some correlation in language between LLMs and humans, and the matter is considered closed?

      What is the empirically tested basis for the null hypothesis that LLMs are conscious until proven otherwise?

      1. causal · · focus · HN ↗
        > LLMs are conscious until proven otherwise

        GP comment didn't make this claim at all.

        1. krapp · · focus · HN ↗
          I didn't claim they did.
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