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“Suppose you have a model that assigns itself a 72 percent chance of being conscious,” Douthat began. “Would you believe it?”

Amodei called it a “really hard” question to answer, but hesitated to give a yes or no answer.

Be nice to the stochastic parrots, folks.

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 35 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It would be really funny if a sentient computer program emerged but then it turned out that its consciousness was an emergent effect from an obscure 00s linux stack that got left running on a server somewhere and had nothing to do with llms.

[-] Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 18 hours ago
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