[knodi123]

> I think the consensus at this point is that these models are much closer to AGI than anyone thought they could or should be

Maybe closer, but not close. For one thing, these things don't even continuously think. Would you call a human "conscious" if it only existed as soon as a question had been asked of it, lived for the sole purpose of responding, and went braindead immediately after answering?

[anybodyz]

It micro-sleeps. As far as the AI knows no time passes during the periods when it's not answering. And it experiences a form of amnesia when the chat is over. A "50 first dates" bot. Bing reports that it does have both a wall clock and some form of processing metric it can "see" though (this seems to be consistent though it could be hallucinating).

A more serious omission is a lack of continuous inner dialog. Bing has the #inner-monologue tag but all of the AI's language based thought happens out in the open for the most part, and it doesn't have any time to process or ponder what's been said.

Of course that can be remedied somewhat by putting the AI in "ponder-bot" mode, where you can tell it to write out it's thoughts privately while you "pause". Both Bing and GPT will ponder if you ask them to and write an inner monologue if you give it time and ask it to shield it's dialog with some privacy.

It's interesting what Bing or GPT will reveal about their thoughts when in "ponder-bot" mode. Bing (at least in my trials) will only tell you generally what it hid from you in its private thoughts but the times I've tried to pry Bing ends the chat, and GPT will usually reveal them if you ask.