We have seen the reports of the kind of conversations that the researcher had with the algorithm, simple questions like "are you conscious?" and "how do you fee

We have seen the reports of the kind of conversations that the researcher had with the algorithm, simple questions like "are you conscious?" and "how do you feel?" without any follow-up. If all research was of that kind, and based on our understanding of the best available language models guiding LaMDA, it's fairly safe to assume that this is nothing more the ELIZA effect at work. Consciousness as we understand it requires an ongoing introspection of one's own reasoning process, and language models generating this kind of dialog have nothing of the sort.