Deanthropomorphising NLP: Can a language model be conscious?
PLoS One 2024 Matthew Shardlow, Piotr Przybyła 8 citations
This work is intended as a voice in the discussion over previous claims that a pretrained large language model (LLM) based on the Transformer model architecture can be sentient. Such claims have been made concerning the LaMDA model and also concerning the current wave of LLM-powered chatbots, such as ChatGPT. This claim, if confirmed, would have serious ramifications in the Natural Language...