Jonathan Simon

Do Stochastic Parrots Pine for Residual Fjords?: Why Conscious LLMs Would Be Playwrights Not Characters

This paper asks: if large language models (LLMs) gave rise to phenomenal consciousness, what would it be like? I argue that if LLMs gave rise to phenomenal consciousness, it would be like being an impartial, improvising playwright rather than a character or a (roleplaying) actor or an author writing a first-personal n...