Comparing the “consciousness” of LLMs and AI models with the consciousness of living organisms feels to me almost like comparing apples to oranges.
Yet I’m of the opinion that the process in which living brains manifest consciousness may not be all that different from the process that LLMs use, just translated into its biochemical near-equivalent.
However I’m 100% confident that LLMs and other AI (now or in the future) can never be conscious of the world in the same way that living organisms are conscious (or not conscious).
This is because there is something in living things that is missing and can never be found in LLMs and AI. That is the soul / spirit which is what brings about that consciousness and life that living organisms have. (Don’t quote me on this though because, of course, I can not prove it LOL.)
However, at some point LLMs (or AIs) will be able to perfectly simulate human-like consciousness that it would become nearly impossible to tell that they are really not conscious or sentient (if GPT-3 is like this, imagine what GPT-50 would be like!!!)
But they will never have the same kind of consciousness as even the lowest of living organisms.
Unless a way to give them a spirit or a soul is discovered.
Comparing the “consciousness” of LLMs and AI models with the consciousness of living organisms feels to me almost like comparing apples to oranges.
Yet I’m of the opinion that the process in which living brains manifest consciousness may not be all that different from the process that LLMs use, just translated into its biochemical near-equivalent.
However I’m 100% confident that LLMs and other AI (now or in the future) can never be conscious of the world in the same way that living organisms are conscious (or not conscious).
This is because there is something in living things that is missing and can never be found in LLMs and AI. That is the soul / spirit which is what brings about that consciousness and life that living organisms have. (Don’t quote me on this though because, of course, I can not prove it LOL.)
However, at some point LLMs (or AIs) will be able to perfectly simulate human-like consciousness that it would become nearly impossible to tell that they are really not conscious or sentient (if GPT-3 is like this, imagine what GPT-50 would be like!!!)
But they will never have the same kind of consciousness as even the lowest of living organisms.
Unless a way to give them a spirit or a soul is discovered.