The speaker is uncertain whether an LLM’s apparent phenomenal experience is merely imitated from descriptions in its human-language training data.

“By-- I'm agnostic with respect to whether the LLM is deepfaking it because it's been trained on human language that, uh, already contains a lot of these descriptions. Maybe we would need to build a system that learns language the old-fashioned way, that is developmental AI, that is learning in the same way as us.”