<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>But words in this case are like camouflage, or false eyes on the wings of butterflies.</div><div><br></div><div>A conscious being can consciously deny being conscious for its own chose reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>A non-concious being can be programmed to affirm or deny being conscious, for someone else's reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>What ChatGPT says in answer to this question is the least likely thing to actually answer the question.</div><div><br></div><div>Tara Maya</div><div><br></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 20, 2023, at 4:31 PM, Jason Resch via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 6:44 PM Dave S via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(52,53,65,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; display: flex; padding: 1.5rem 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5rem; max-width: 48rem;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: are you self-aware?</span></div><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; display: flex; color: rgba(172,172,190,var(--tw-text-opacity)); padding-left: 0.5rem;"><button style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.25rem; background-image: none; border-radius: 0.375rem;"><span height="1em" width="1em"><span></span><span></span></span></button></div><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"></div></div></div></div><div style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(247,247,248,var(--tw-bg-opacity)); color: rgba(52,53,65,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; display: flex; padding: 1.5rem 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5rem; max-width: 48rem;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 30px; border-radius: 0.125rem; padding: 0.25rem; color: rgba(255,255,255,var(--tw-text-opacity)); background-color: rgb(16, 163, 127);"><span width="41" height="41"><span></span></span></div></div><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; min-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: none; line-height: 1.75;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">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.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Dave</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/2R4fHkAyjyHHWTU88">https://photos.app.goo.gl/2R4fHkAyjyHHWTU88</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/osskvbe4fYpbK5uZ9">https://photos.app.goo.gl/osskvbe4fYpbK5uZ9</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You can chat with this AI here:</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=Qu8qKq7ET9aO-ujfPWCsNoIilVabocasi-Erp-pNlcc">https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=Qu8qKq7ET9aO-ujfPWCsNoIilVabocasi-Erp-pNlcc</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">extropy-chat mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>