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amanaplanacanalyesterday at 8:38 PM1 replyview on HN

There is a difference between saying software can never be conscious and saying the software we have today isn't conscious.


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orangecatyesterday at 9:15 PM

Yes. There are really three separate questions:

  - Are current LLMs conscious?
  - Is it possible that future versions of LLMs with similar architectures could be conscious?
  - Can any AI be conscious?
I'd assign probabilities of around 0.1, 0.2, and 0.9. My completely ignorant take is that we probably need something more "dynamic" than a bunch of transformer layers in order to produce consciousness, but I wouldn't be shocked to be mistaken.