3 papers
cs.CL2025
Does It Make Sense to Speak of Introspection in Large Language Models?
Iulia M. Comsa, Murray Shanahan
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit compelling linguistic behaviour, and sometimes offer self-reports, that is to say statements about their own nature, inner workings, or behavio…
cs.CL2024
Still "Talking About Large Language Models": Some Clarifications
Murray Shanahan
My paper "Talking About Large Language Models" has more than once been interpreted as advocating a reductionist stance towards large language models. But the paper was not intended…
cs.CY2024
Existential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and Culture
Murray Shanahan, Beth Singler
Contemporary conversational AI systems based on large language models (LLMs) can engage users on a wide variety of topics, including philosophy, spirituality, and religion. Suitabl…