a new paper on mind, computation, and identity in large language models. with inspiration from raymond carver (title) and severance (thought experiments).
i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley.
philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8
i know X is getting overrun with deepfakes, but this was unexpected. (no, that's not me after the first frame, and i'm not speaking at the 2025 congreso futuro.)
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we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878
When we talk to large language models, who or what is our interlocutor? First, I address some issues about how best to characterize the interlocutor in terms of mental states. Second, ...
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three excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out. two are mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one is mainly on VR. for all the articles and replies see consc.net/papers/reali....
the long-awaited video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the ASSC conference in NYC in june 2023 has been released: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DH....
i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at x.com/davidchalmer....
a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740
claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!