为大模型具备认知能力正名,从行为表现推导其心智状态。
Recognizing Artificial Minds: A Philosophical Defense of AI Cognition
- 基于大模型的行为表现,通过整体关联推理其具备认知能力。
- 反驳幻觉等缺陷不否定其作为认知主体的资格。
- 适合对人工智能哲学、心智本质感兴趣的读者。
本文捍卫‘全盘论题’:像ChatGPT这样的复杂大型语言模型是完整的语言与认知主体,拥有理解、信念、欲望、知识和意图。我们反对当前人工智能哲学中依赖底层计算细节或既有心智理论的起点,转而从大模型的高阶行为观察(如回答问题、提供建议)出发,论证这些现象并非隐喻或伪装。通过‘整体网络假设’——即回答暗示知识,知识暗示信念,行动暗示意图——推导出完整的心智状态体系。我们系统回应了因幻觉、规划/推理错误等失败引发的质疑,认为这些缺陷并不排除主体性,反而类似人类的局限性。针对多种‘缺失游戏’,我们指出大模型并不缺乏所谓认知必要条件(如语义扎根、具身性、正当性、内在意向性),或这些条件本身非必需,常依赖反歧视论证,将大模型与多样人类能力类比。本研究为证据导向而非功能主义,刻意排除意识。最后推测大模型可能拥有超越人类概念体系的‘异质’内容。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This work defends the 'Whole Hog Thesis': sophisticated Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are full-blown linguistic and cognitive agents, possessing understanding, beliefs, desires, knowledge, and intentions. We argue against prevailing methodologies in AI philosophy, rejecting starting points based on low-level computational details ('Just an X' fallacy) or pre-existing theories of mind. Instead, we advocate starting with simple, high-level observations of LLM behavior (e.g., answering questions, making suggestions) -- defending this data against charges of metaphor, loose talk, or pretense. From these observations, we employ 'Holistic Network Assumptions' -- plausible connections between mental capacities (e.g., answering implies knowledge, knowledge implies belief, action implies intention) -- to argue for the full suite of cognitive states. We systematically rebut objections based on LLM failures (hallucinations, planning/reasoning errors), arguing these don't preclude agency, often mirroring human fallibility. We address numerous 'Games of Lacks', arguing that LLMs do not lack purported necessary conditions for cognition (e.g., semantic grounding, embodiment, justification, intrinsic intentionality) or that these conditions are not truly necessary, often relying on anti-discriminatory arguments comparing LLMs to diverse human capacities. Our approach is evidential, not functionalist, and deliberately excludes consciousness. We conclude by speculating on the possibility of LLMs possessing 'alien' contents beyond human conceptual schemes.
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