Artificial-intelligence systems such as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit behaviour that seems strikingly intelligent. This has led many people, including some experts, to wonder whether these systems could have some form of consciousness — the capacity for subjective experience. However, we think that existing AI systems are not conscious, and that, along current trajectories of development, they are not likely to become conscious. Greater clarity about whether AI could become consciousness will be crucial as society grapples with the challenges posed by this increasingly powerful technology.
In your earlier reply, during the banana analogy:
You followed that with:
That’s the basis for my characterization.
The contradiction is in your subsequent argument, where you reject the expression “what it is like” by interpreting its individual words literally:
Youre treating an established philosophical expression as meaningless because its individual words don’t yield the intended meaning under their preferred literal interpretation.
Yet you previously acknowledged that meaning emerges from how language is used socially, rather than strictly from dictionary definitions.
Okay. Glad we found the dilemma. I disagree, but I’m also too tired right now. That will be all, then.
You are just delusional, literally hallucinating things I never wrote. Nowhere in anything I wrote did I claim that I am rejecting it as meaningless “because its individual words don’t yield the intended meaning under their preferred literal interpretation.”. I never said that, I never implied that, I never gave the impression of implying that, and I never had the air of the impression of implying that.
You are literally just hallucinating things never written.