This line of reasoning reduces to the philosophical zombie argument. It's true I can't prove to you that I have a first person experience of the world, but it doesn't therefore follow that anything that makes that claim does have such an experience.
For myself I'm satisfied that, when questioned thoroughly, these models fail so completely and utterly and their output is so ludicrously nonsensical that I don't see how their behaviour can be consistent with consciousness, as I understand it. It's not just that the output is incoherent, but it's the ways that they fail too. Do I completely understand consciousness? No, but that doesn't mean these things are conscious either.
No it doesn't. So what?We have this exact problem to deal with when people suffer brain damage. To what extent are they conscious, or still people? Yet we do come to medical conclusions on that question. There's always a degree of uncertainty, but you still have to make the call based on the information you have. The information I have indicates to me with a very high probability, in my estimation, that these things are not conscious.
For myself I'm satisfied that, when questioned thoroughly, these models fail so completely and utterly and their output is so ludicrously nonsensical that I don't see how their behaviour can be consistent with consciousness, as I understand it. It's not just that the output is incoherent, but it's the ways that they fail too. Do I completely understand consciousness? No, but that doesn't mean these things are conscious either.
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