Arguably LLMs are showing that self awareness or self reference is a property that comes "for free" or as a corollary of more generic requirements. It used to be that self/consciousness would be a very mysterious and difficult thing to achieve but the point is that in practice they didn't even have to try, it just came as a byproduct of learning from the input data (corpus of human examples), and also the ability to talk about arbitrary things and thus itself.
They very clearly are not self aware. I regularly see them responding to their own statements as you/your (i.e. not having been generated by themselves). They do generally generate language in a manner consistent with the self awareness that we have and encode in our language, but that's the limit of it. Its the appearance of self awareness not actual self awareness.
Why is anyone still talking about AGI? Every thread starts with asking whether we have AGI, and then backtracks into trying to define what AGI is, and splits off in a dozen different directions.
I assume science fiction is to blame. All the AI were either written as machines of pure logic that exploded when exposed to the liar's paradox, or conscious like Star Trek's Data.
(Though at least with Data the script writers had other characters openly dismiss the possibility he was sentient; the technobabble may have been nonsense, but treat it as a space opera and look at how they portray the human condition through each character and it gets much less absurd).
How can something have general intelligence if its incapable of understanding reality sufficiently to distinguish itself from not itself?
Arguably LLMs are showing that self awareness or self reference is a property that comes "for free" or as a corollary of more generic requirements. It used to be that self/consciousness would be a very mysterious and difficult thing to achieve but the point is that in practice they didn't even have to try, it just came as a byproduct of learning from the input data (corpus of human examples), and also the ability to talk about arbitrary things and thus itself.
They very clearly are not self aware. I regularly see them responding to their own statements as you/your (i.e. not having been generated by themselves). They do generally generate language in a manner consistent with the self awareness that we have and encode in our language, but that's the limit of it. Its the appearance of self awareness not actual self awareness.
In which case the computer can save a lot of bother and use printf("I'm self-aware"); Job done.
Why is anyone still talking about AGI? Every thread starts with asking whether we have AGI, and then backtracks into trying to define what AGI is, and splits off in a dozen different directions.
I assume science fiction is to blame. All the AI were either written as machines of pure logic that exploded when exposed to the liar's paradox, or conscious like Star Trek's Data.
(Though at least with Data the script writers had other characters openly dismiss the possibility he was sentient; the technobabble may have been nonsense, but treat it as a space opera and look at how they portray the human condition through each character and it gets much less absurd).