The NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness is co-sponsoring a talk:

Are Large Language Models Sentient?

Thursday, October 13th, 5:00-6:30pm

In-Person Location: Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 31 Washington Place 

This talk is organized by NYU’s new Mind, Ethics, and Policy program, who are also organising a satellite workshop at the ASSC on animal and AI consciousness (details here). 

Speaker: David Chalmers

Topic:
Artificial intelligence systems—especially large language models, giant neural networks trained to predict text from the internet—have recently shown remarkable abilities. There has been widespread discussion of whether some of these language models might be sentient. Should we take this idea seriously? David Chalmers will discuss the underlying issue and try to break down the strongest reasons for and against.

The recording of this talk can be watched in YouTube here.

This talk is also co-sponsored by NYU’s Minds, Brains, and Machines initiative and Center for Bioethics.