[Byamarro]

It frustrates me every time when people talk about consciousness. The word has several meanings, but very often people just use it without specifying which consciousness do do they talk about and then proceed to conflate all the types of the consciousness.

You just end up with everyone being confused and both the author and commenters talking about completely different things.

In this article I feel like we have: 1. Phenomenological consciousness: Does the GPT experience things or is it a P Zombie? Is GPT perceiving the world, or just processing data? Experiencing/Perceiving in this context means seeing "red" not just processing picture and reacting to it. Does it experience the qualia of red or does the data just go through it and you get and output at the end, regardless of how sophisticated is it.

Nobody knows, you can't even reliably prove that you, dear reader, are not the only person in the world who has it.

There's a good example of how ridiculously hard is it and how can we not even talk about these things. Try to establish whether another person sees the same color palette, or is this person's palette inverted? Is your red the same as the other person's red? Absolutely no way to give a definitive answer.

2. Self awareness: Is GPT capable of behaving as if it would be capable of seeing itself as an entity? Yes. It can treat itself as an entity in conversations. Now where we draw a line in terms of memory is in my opinion just semantics. It loses all the memory once you open a new chat window, but people with dementia also lose memory. It's all semantics here and where does your gut feeling draw the line.