Can AI ever become conscious and how would we know if that happens?

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We explore what consciousness in AI would look like and how we might tell it has happened.

ASK AN AI-powered chatbot if it is conscious and, most of the time, it will answer in the negative. “I don’t have personal desires, or,” writes OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “I am not sentient,” chimes in Google’s Bard chatbot. “For now, I am content to help people in a variety of ways.”

For now? AIs seem open to the idea that, with the right additions to their architecture, consciousness isn’t so far-fetched. The companies that make them feel the same way. And according to

 

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