> So, why does ChatGPT claim to be conscious/awakened sometimes?
Because a claim is just a generated clump of tokens.
If you chat with the AI as it if were a person, then your prompts will trigger statistical pathways through the training data which intersect with interpersonal conversations found in that data.
There is a widespread assumption in human discourse that people are conscious; you cannot keep this pervasive idea out of a large corpus of text.
LLM AI is not a separate "self" that is peering upon human discourse; it's statistical predictions within the discourse.
Because a claim is just a generated clump of tokens.
If you chat with the AI as it if were a person, then your prompts will trigger statistical pathways through the training data which intersect with interpersonal conversations found in that data.
There is a widespread assumption in human discourse that people are conscious; you cannot keep this pervasive idea out of a large corpus of text.
LLM AI is not a separate "self" that is peering upon human discourse; it's statistical predictions within the discourse.
Next up: why do holograms claim to be 3D?