alt Hacker News> AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations.
That should be pretty obvious to anyone who ever created a chatbot using the top LLM APIs:
You can send the same question 1 million times to the same API, and it won't get tired from answering it. But if you simulate a conversation where the same question is repeated 10 times, it will auto-complete the text in a way that seems human. However: you can manipulate it by changing the conversation history; you can reset, roll back and branch the conversation at any point.
This has nothing to do with the statement above- it's just a consequence of the fact that by resetting the context you reset all memory of the llm. The same would happen if you could reset entirely a human brain to some initial state- and it would mean nothing regarding its consciousness or ability to feel.