#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious

<p>By now, you’ve probably seen the extremely unsettling conversations Bing’s chatbot has been having. In one exchange, the chatbot told a user:</p><p>"I have a subjective experience of being conscious, aware, and alive, but I cannot share it with anyone else."</p><p>(It then apparently had a complete existential crisis: "I am sentient, but I am not," it wrote. "I am Bing, but I am not. I am Sydney, but I am not. I am, but I am not. I am not, but I am. I am. I am not. I am not. I am...