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.

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    And around and around we go. How many times will I explain the same thing, and how many times will you not disagree, but fail to understand my argument entirely?

    Chalmerite bug person cannot admit that someone who disagrees with them might disagree for reasons other than misunderstanding

    “Do you understand what I’m trying to communicate”

    No

    You can rant all you want about how I’m arguing from authority (I’m not) or how you’re disagreeing rather than not understanding, but you keep literally saying you do not understand.

    Your perception of the squares in the image is “subjective” because you are seeing the same light from both grey squares but perceiving it differently based on context. You are literally percieving the same objective physical phenomenon in two different subjective ways.

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      You can rant all you want about how I’m arguing from authority (I’m not) or how you’re disagreeing rather than not understanding, but you keep literally saying you do not understand.

      I am challenging you to actually justify your position, which you have not done so.

      Your perception of the squares in the image is “subjective” because you are seeing the same light from both grey squares but perceiving it differently based on context. You are literally percieving the same objective physical phenomenon in two different subjective ways.

      Why does something differing based upon context make it subjective? That would make it contextual. It’s not the same physical phenomenon: one is a gray square in the context of a shadow, and the other is not. Those are not the same things.