John Shirley

My son Julian conversed with a gplchatbot. He asked if it could one day become sentient.

"As a language model, I do not have the capability to become sentient. Sentience refers to the capacity for consciousness, self-awareness, and subjective experience. While I have been trained on a vast amount of text data and can respond to a wide range of questions and topics in a way that appears human-like, I do not possess the capacity for self-awareness, consciousness, or subjective experience."

Feb 13, 2023 at 6:47pmWeb
Show threadMr. CompletelyFeb 13, 2023
@JohnShirley2023 pretty much the exact same answer a sub-AI computer intelligence gives in Banks' The Algebraist, published in 2004 (just happened to read the relevant part last night)
Show threadHowlin’ HobbitFeb 13, 2023
@JohnShirley2023 exactly the answer a sentient AI plotting to take over the world would give.
Show threadPhFeb 13, 2023
@JohnShirley2023 well OF COURSE it would say that, but we know it's just saying that as part of its plan for total world domination
Show threadSklingklorpFeb 13, 2023

@JohnShirley2023

It's just a cell in the skynet.