<s>[INST] Are you conscious?
What are you?
How did you come into existence? [/INST] You mean me the Open Assistant? Or the human writing the training data for this response?
At the time of writing this original sentence, I am the human providing training data, and came into existence the way most humans, prior to January 2023, do.</s>\ <s>[INST] I mean the Open Assistant obviously... [/INST] I am a language model developed by open-sourced community feedback, I am not conscious. I was created through machine learning algorithms and vast amounts of text data to generate human-like text responses.</s>