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Chatbots say "I" all the time now. Whether anyone's home is a muddier question than it sounds, because intelligence, a sense of self, feelings and moral status are separate things, and a machine might have some of them without the others.
The book looks at what a language model is under the hood, runs the main theories of consciousness against it, and gives the yes and no camps their strongest case. Then come the hardest bits: whether a model's reports about itself mean anything, what peering inside can tell us, and what we'd owe it if the answer turned out to be yes.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (150 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.
Chatbots say "I" all the time now. Whether anyone's home is a muddier question than it sounds, because intelligence, a sense of self, feelings and moral status are separate things, and a machine might have some of them without the others.
The book looks at what a language model is under the hood, runs the main theories of consciousness against it, and gives the yes and no camps their strongest case. Then come the hardest bits: whether a model's reports about itself mean anything, what peering inside can tell us, and what we'd owe it if the answer turned out to be yes.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (150 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.