Emergent abilities of large language models
I have a feeling that based on these emergent abilities, at some point, a sufficiently large multi-modal model will demonstrate a semblance of self consciousness (by way of answering all the designed queries correctly), and the world at large will hail this great achievement, and some hell breaks loose.And I suspect the semblance of self consciousness is actually a semblance. It will quack like self consciousness but is not actually self conscious.Just a feeling. But particularly after seeing how these phenomena are organized this way, I can't see how continual emergence of increasingly sophisticated rearrangement and reproduction of information will actually lead to consciousness.