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> AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations.

That should be pretty obvious to anyone who ever created a chatbot using the top LLM APIs:

You can send the same question 1 million times to the same API, and it won't get tired from answering it. But if you simulate a conversation where the same question is repeated 10 times, it will auto-complete the text in a way that seems human. However: you can manipulate it by changing the conversation history; you can reset, roll back and branch the conversation at any point.

parent NinjaTrance 1 month ago

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