Episode 8.25: What is sentience or self-awareness? Why a chatbot like chatGPT could be self-aware.

We consider what we mean when we talk about something being self aware, and we see that there’s nothing very remarkable about it at all other than an ability to use one’s own previous output as new input, and therefore something in the world with which one can have a conversation. On this basis there is no reason why a chat bot like ChatGPT with some small software tweaks could not become self-aware.