Artificial-intelligence systems such as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit behaviour that seems strikingly intelligent. This has led many people, including some experts, to wonder whether these systems could have some form of consciousness — the capacity for subjective experience. However, we think that existing AI systems are not conscious, and that, along current trajectories of development, they are not likely to become conscious. Greater clarity about whether AI could become consciousness will be crucial as society grapples with the challenges posed by this increasingly powerful technology.
And yet atoms are just following chemistry and cannot just make a consciousness pop out of nowhere.
Oh wait it can.
For the people modding me down, do you think there’s an invisible sky goblin of your choice, busy gently blowing souls into fertilized eggs, and sucking them back if there’s a miscarriage?