Events

Are Large Language Models Sentient?

Speaker: David Chalmers

Location: TBA

Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022

Artificial intelligence systems—especially large language models, giant neural networks trained to predict text from the internet—have recently shown remarkable abilities. There has been widespread discussion of whether some of these language models might be sentient. Should we take this idea seriously? David Chalmers will discuss the underlying issue and try to break down the strongest reasons for and against.