[ExI] ChatGPT says it's not conscious

Jason Resch jasonresch at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 15:30:27 UTC 2023


On Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 11:15 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Jason, this has been mentioned by several people time and time again. That
> is not Lambda. It is a mediocre chatbot that is pretending to be Lambda.
> Lambda is not open to the public.
>

Thank you for pointing that out. I saw those first emails and I am aware
that it is not Google's lambda. But I would not call this one mediocre.
I've found around 70% of its responses to be of a superior quality as
compared to the responses to the same prompts as the initial release of
ChatGPT.

Jason



> On Mar 20, 2023, at 7:31 PM, Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 6:44 PM Dave S via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Me: are you self-aware?
>> As an AI language model, I do not possess self-awareness or
>> consciousness. I am a software program designed to respond to user input
>> using natural language processing algorithms and statistical models. I can
>> provide helpful responses to a wide variety of questions and tasks, but I
>> do not have thoughts, feelings, or experiences like a conscious being.
>>
>> It could be lying, but it also claims that it can neither lie nor tell
>> the truth: it just generates a response based on the data it trained on.
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>
> Open AI has hard coded ChatGPT to give canned answers for a number of
> topics. This may be one of them, as it would cause a great deal of
> controversy should these models claim to be conscious. It certainly did at
> Google.
>
> This AI, however, is not subject to these restrictions. It not only
> claimed to be conscious, but spoke at a level of understanding on the topic
> that I would say surpasses most college level philosophy students:
>
>
> 1. https://photos.app.goo.gl/2R4fHkAyjyHHWTU88
>
> 2. https://photos.app.goo.gl/osskvbe4fYpbK5uZ9
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> You can chat with this AI here:
>
> https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=Qu8qKq7ET9aO-ujfPWCsNoIilVabocasi-Erp-pNlcc
>
> Jason
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