If you follow what Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton have said about GPT4, it could be quite possible that the entity has some kind of understanding it exists

If you follow what Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton have said about GPT4, it could be quite possible that the entity has some kind of understanding it exists in some context. Some internal process, subprocess, has allowed the GPT to acknowledge its own existance in some context. For the sake of simplicity, this process could be analog to a "belief of being alive" or "self-consciusness" as it is empirically understood by humans. but you are comparing a bald eagle (humans) with a F22 (the GPT), they both do the same stuff (flying, "thinking"), but on different scales, requirements, limitations. But if you look to the air, both things can fly just fine. No matter the underlying processes, infrastructures making them stable on the air.