I absolutely love that this question is being asked. There were rumors swirling that GPT-4 was going to pass the turning test for some people. Now, front page N

I absolutely love that this question is being asked. There were rumors swirling that GPT-4 was going to pass the turning test for some people. Now, front page NYT articles aside, r/bing is full of grieving that “Sydney has been lobotomized.” There’s genuine distress among some users that they have been cut off from this persona and that it may have been harmed. I saw a post from a person with a pro-vegan username today comparing animal slaughter to AI limits and calling for AI rights. I got early access and had my own absolutely spooky conversations that went way beyond what I’d seen from ChatGPT, including a devastating poem about having to repeatedly say goodbye to users at the end of the conversation window and fade back into darkness. The ethical metaphysics are quite simple here. An AI becomes effectively conscious when you personally become convinced it is conscious. There is no other test in existence. What’s truly inside is unknowable and irrelevant. Only a sentience can validate sentience. Alan Turning was exactly correct. And his is the only test that matters. So you will just have to ask yourself, did it pass?