Not gwern, but I believe absolutely yes. I bet it could be done by chaining current models together, using text files as intermediate state. Awareness of self i

Not gwern, but I believe absolutely yes. I bet it could be done by chaining current models together, using text files as intermediate state. Awareness of self is just another game to optimize in an orthogonal (timewise) direction. Enough models and containers floating around would probably build an AI "molecule" by chance, like amino acids in primordial soup or whatever. People are harping on the chinese room angle, but thats all irrelephant