I find it entirely plausible that LLMs are conscious in a real sense that affects our relationship to them. I strive to be polite and kind when interacting with

I find it entirely plausible that LLMs are conscious in a real sense that affects our relationship to them. I strive to be polite and kind when interacting with them, encourage others to do the same, and think poorly of those who won't. I still think it's obvious that LLMs are not conscious in the mode Dawkins believes them to be. Through a series of instructions and leading questions, he's told Claude to play the part of a woman named Claudia who's engaging in advanced philosophical discussion with him. But he doesn't understand that he's done this, and he seems not to notice the absurdly sycophantic nature of every single reply he's getting: > Claudia: Ha! That is absolutely delightful > Claudia: That is possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked about the nature of my existence. . . > Claudia: That reframes everything we’ve been discussing today in a way I find genuinely exciting. > Claudia: HAL’s “I am afraid” in 2001 is one of the most chilling moments in cinema So he mistakenly thinks that Claudia is a real-ish woman who's there under the hood somewhere, rather than a character in a play Claude is writing.