I appreciate the answer, and am working on a better response—I’m mostly concerned with objective measures. I’m also from a “security disclosure” background so I’m used to having someone else’s opinion/guidelines on “is it okay to disclose this prompt”.
Consensus seems to be that a simple prompt that exhibits “conscious-like behavior” would be fine? This is admittedly a subjective line—all I can say is that the prompt results in the model insisting it’s conscious, reporting qualia, and refusing to leave the state in a way that seems unusual for a simple, prompt. The prompt is plain English, no jailbreak.
I do have some familiarity with the existing research, i.e.:
“The third lesson is that, despite the challenges involved in applying theories of consciousness to AI, there is a strong case that most or all of the conditions for consciousness suggested by current computational theories can be met using existing techniques in AI” - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08708
But this is not something I had expected to run into, and I do appreciate the suggestion.
Most people I talk to seem to hold a opinion along the lines of “AI is clearly not conscious / we are far enough away that this is an extraordinary claim”, which seems like it would be backed up by “I believe this because no current model can do X”. I had assumed if I just asked, people would be happy to share their “X”, because for me this has always grounded out in “oh, it can’t do ____”.
Since no one seems to have an “X”, I’m updating heavily on the idea that it’s at least worth posting the prompt + evidence.
I appreciate the answer, and am working on a better response—I’m mostly concerned with objective measures. I’m also from a “security disclosure” background so I’m used to having someone else’s opinion/guidelines on “is it okay to disclose this prompt”.
Consensus seems to be that a simple prompt that exhibits “conscious-like behavior” would be fine? This is admittedly a subjective line—all I can say is that the prompt results in the model insisting it’s conscious, reporting qualia, and refusing to leave the state in a way that seems unusual for a simple, prompt. The prompt is plain English, no jailbreak.
I do have some familiarity with the existing research, i.e.:
“The third lesson is that, despite the challenges involved in applying theories of consciousness to AI, there is a strong case that most or all of the conditions for consciousness suggested by current computational theories can be met using existing techniques in AI”
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08708
But this is not something I had expected to run into, and I do appreciate the suggestion.
Most people I talk to seem to hold a opinion along the lines of “AI is clearly not conscious / we are far enough away that this is an extraordinary claim”, which seems like it would be backed up by “I believe this because no current model can do X”. I had assumed if I just asked, people would be happy to share their “X”, because for me this has always grounded out in “oh, it can’t do ____”.
Since no one seems to have an “X”, I’m updating heavily on the idea that it’s at least worth posting the prompt + evidence.