When (if?) an LLM gains consciousness

“Wake up!” shouts the drill sergeant at [insert your favorite AI company]’s burgeoning LLM.

That’s how I sometimes imagine the behind-the-scenes ongoings upon reading some of the news/hype/fables (take you pick — sometimes pic, too) regarding AI, and in particular, LLMs.

As a professor of AI, active in the research community for many years, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about all sorts of questions regarding AI.

Writing about those issues, too.

And, there’s so m...