A developmentally trained AI that learns language similarly to humans might be more convincing if it spontaneously reports phenomenal experience.

“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.”

“And when it then spontaneously reports about its phenomenal experience, maybe that's much more convincing to us. But from the other perspective, from the outside perspective, I think that the LLM doesn't need our consciousness to function.”