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Might text-davinci-003 have inner speech?

Mann, Stephen Francis and Gregory, Daniel (2023) Might text-davinci-003 have inner speech? [Preprint]

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**Please cite the published version at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175623000453**

In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, an incredibly sophisticated chatbot. Its capability is astonishing: as well as conversing with human interlocutors, it can answer questions about history, explain almost anything you might think to ask it, and write poetry. This level of achievement has provoked interest in questions about whether a chatbot might have something similar to human intelligence or even consciousness. Given that the function of a chatbot is to process linguistic input and produce linguistic output, we consider the question whether a sophisticated chatbot might have inner speech. That is: Might it talk to itself, internally? We explored this via a conversation with ‘Playground’, a chatbot which is very similar to ChatGPT but more flexible in certain respects. We asked it questions which, plausibly, can only be answered if one first produces some inner speech. Here, we present our findings and discuss their philosophical significance.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Mann, Stephen Francisstephenfmann@gmail.com0000-0002-4136-8595
Gregory, Danieldaniel.gregory@ub.edu0000-0003-4059-6948
Keywords: Large language models; Inner speech; Turing test; ChatGPT; Artificial intelligence
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence
Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User: Dr Stephen Francis Mann
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2024 11:31
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2024 11:31
Item ID: 23235
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175623000453
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1017/S1477175623000453
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence
Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date: 9 March 2023
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23235

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