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Terry Sejnowski offers a nuanced exploration of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and what their future holds. How should we go about understanding LLMs? Do these language models truly understand what they are saying? Or is it possible that what appears to be intelligence in LLMs may be a mirror that merely reflects the intelligence of the interviewer? In this discussion of his book ChatGPT and the Future of AI, Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational approaches to understanding brain function, answers all our urgent questions about this astonishing new technology.
Terrence J. Sejnowski is Francis Crick Chair at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Distinguished Professor at the University of California at San Diego. He has published over 500 scientific papers and 12 books, including The Computational Brain with Patricia Churchland. He was instrumental in shaping the BRAIN Initiative that was announced by the White House in 2013, and he received the prestigious Gruber Prize in Neuroscience in 2022.
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I think Terry Sejnowski confuses the manifestation of consciousness with consciousness. Or maybe he uses behavioral definition of consciousness - if we are able to detect certain manifestations we may claim that it is consciousness. Understanding how consciousness manifests itself does not imply that we can synthesize consciousness. We understand spacetime and fundamental forces, but we cannot reverse time, or create new special and temporal dimensions, or modify fundamental forces.
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