Friday Feb 17, 2023

Episode 8.45: Self-awareness is not what matters: chatGPT and its cousins already share our world!

The only example of self-awareness of which I have direct knowledge is my own. I grant gladly that other human beings and many other species enjoy something of the same kind of self-awareness, even if it is nonlinguistic or non-verbal. Since I interact with other entities - human and non-human - that I have only my assumption of awareness to base that relationship on, what manner of prejudice is it that would lead me to deny similar, or better, or simply different levels of self-awareness to something just because it consisted of a set of mathematical functions buried inside an electronic machine?

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