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> Consciousness is awareness of itself. Inner monologue is self referential. ChatGPT is definitely aware that it exists. In humans, the self-referential inner
by braindead_in 3y ago
> Consciousness is awareness of itself. Inner monologue is self referential.
ChatGPT is definitely aware that it exists. In humans, the self-referential inner monologue activates when the mind is idle. The Default Mode Network is responsible for that processing. Can it be that ChatGPT is "thinking" when it's idle as well?
- mirekrusin 3y agoI think you're conflating self-awareness with self-...acknowledgement? Ie. python script foo.py that prints content of ./foo.py is not self aware. Self awareness needs notion of time and self referential memory. ChatGPT doesn't exist when it's idle. It's activated when transforming input into next potential token (list of tokens with probabilities). Ie. it's just sophisticated pure function mapping input -> list of tokens with probabilities. What's incredible is that it actually works when you keep repeating it. Notion of thinking time doesn't exist for it. It can for example branch in the middle. You can calculate one token in this data-center, next one on another continent etc.