#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

6371.775 - 6397.446 Sean Carroll

I don't think that there are many limits in principle. I'm a physicalist about consciousness and awareness and things like that. I see no obstacle to, in principle, building an artificial machine that is indistinguishable in thought and cognition from a human being. But we're not trying to do that, right? What a large language model is trying to do is to predict text. That's what it does.