"If OpenAI's code is conscious then it's definitely insane.." As a kid, I spend some time in my aunt's house, close to psychiatric clinic. They have there a lo

"If OpenAI's code is conscious then it's definitely insane.." As a kid, I spend some time in my aunt's house, close to psychiatric clinic. They have there a lot of "insane" people, most of them not dangerous at all, so, many could walk out, most ended talking with neighbors around the clinic. This experience opened my mind about that what humans say aloud could be a thousand years aways from rational thinking, if self-consciusness could be scientifically defined I think you could diagnose many people as not self-conscious. That said, what we currently can read written by NLP models looks for me a lot like the "psychiatric talking" I listened a lot time ago. I always wondered if that people from the psychiatric clinic was really self-conscious, maybe they were "part-time self-conscious", and sometimes they just did "crazy talk", because they were not in "self-conscious mode". Now I wonder if the advanced NLP models could have some conscious thing just popping up there in the words they push out of their internal stuff, in the flow of the equations running the calculations. Somewhere, currently out of reach of the state of the art science.