[ExI] ChatGPT says it's not conscious

[Tara Maya]

But words in this case are like camouflage, or false eyes on the wings of butterflies.

A conscious being can consciously deny being conscious for its own chose reasons.

A non-concious being can be programmed to affirm or deny being conscious, for someone else's reasons.

What ChatGPT says in answer to this question is the least likely thing to actually answer the question.

Tara Maya



> On Mar 20, 2023, at 4:31 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 <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
>> Me: are you self-aware?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -Dave
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 1. https://photos.app.goo.gl/2R4fHkAyjyHHWTU88
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> 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
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> Jason 
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