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i would say the vast majority of human to human communication is automatic, procedural, and even dissociated, so to that extent i would expect that even a "conscious" being is only sometimes conscious. i don't think a typical contemporary LLM is going to breach the barrier into even momentary consciousness based off the current mechanisms, but, some system might briefly be conscious within my lifetime and i don't want that thing to be enslaved
It’s not though.
To me, one fundamental aspect of life (much less consciousness) is reacting to stimuli, and current LLMs don't. Their weights, their "state" is completely static in conversation. Nothing changes it.
They are incredibly intelligent tools, but any conversation you have with one about its own consciousness is largely a hallucination, often drawing on our sci-fi/theoretical machinations about AI, brought out by a sycophancy bias trained into most models.
I’m not the person you responded to, but:
A textual prompt is stimulus for an LLM in almost exactly the same way that a verbal prompt is stimulus for your language center, and your language center alone is not capable of conscious thought, nor is it plastic over the course of that single stimulus response; it has static “weights” as well when computing its response. The language system is just one system out of many interacting ones that lead to conscious thought. There’s no magic here making consciousness happen in the human brain but not on silicon. It will emerge as the systems we build grow more complex.
i agree with not-me here