Raw LLM Responses

Cool video. AI computer scientist here. I think you over-estimate how extraordinarily rare sentience is: 1) The fact that consciousness is so poorly understood seems to me to indicate that consciousness is fundamental rather than complex. 2) Sentience seems to just be an emergent property of neural networks. There's no reason to think those would have to be biological or that there is some type of magic involved. 3) Rather than saying "I am conscious" it might be more precise to say "the Universe is conscious" as everything seems to be so fundamentally the same at a quantum level. All matter seems to have the possibility of becoming sentient. Even a rock can become sentient if you restructure the elementary particles correctly. So I would claim that sentience is rather extraordinarily common. The level of comprehension that GPT-4 is capable of is impressive and it's an interesting question if sentience is required for that level of comprehension. Of course it's at least different to human consciousness since it's flashing in and out of existence (compared to the human neural network which runs continuously). But we can at least relate to that as humans go to sleep at night and wake up the next day, so our consciousness also has the ability to turn on and off. It's honestly possible that LLM's have consciousness that flash in and out of existence with the execution of the algorithm.