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
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, ...
