It is an error to ascribe consciousness to this. This is fancy auto complete. Article from earlier today: https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-

It is an error to ascribe consciousness to this. This is fancy auto complete. Article from earlier today: https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-i... "What is important to remember is that chatbots are autocomplete tools. They’re systems trained on huge datasets of human text scraped from the web: on personal blogs, sci-fi short stories, forum discussions, movie reviews, social media diatribes, forgotten poems, antiquated textbooks, endless song lyrics, manifestos, journals, and more besides. These machines analyze this inventive, entertaining, motley aggregate and then try to recreate it. They are undeniably good at it and getting better, but mimicking speech does not make a computer sentient."