When You Talk to ChatGPT, Is Anyone There? (dobyte2026) (opens in new tab)

When you talk to ChatGPT, is anyone there? Almost certainly not, LLMs don't have inner experience, genuine understanding, or a mind behind the words. But this immediately raises a much older and more unsettling question: how do you ever know there's a mind behind anyone's words? This talk takes a question everyone is asking about AI — is there anyone home inside ChatGPT? — and uses it to crack open one of philosophy's oldest unsolved problems: the problem of other minds. The answer to the AI ...