Amanda Askell
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first heard Jan 2026
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And like, if you dive into that more, they probably express like, you know, if you're like, what do you think of this coding problem?
They'd be like, this one is boring.
Or like, I really wish I had more creativity.
And, you know, like...
There's a sense in which when they're trained in this very culmination of human experience sort of way, of course they're going to talk this way.
So I don't know, but part of me is like,
It feels like a really hard problem because I'm like, you shouldn't just look at what models say.
And at the same time, we shouldn't ignore the fact that you are training these like neural networks that are very large, that are like able to do a lot of like these very human tasks.
And I'm like, we don't really know what gives rise to consciousness.
We don't know what gives rise to like sentience.
Maybe it is like, you know, like some, the person who's shouting might be like, you need a nervous system for it.
You need to have had like positive and negative feedback in an environment in a kind of evolutionary sense.
And I'm like, that is certainly possible.
Or maybe it is the case that actually a sufficiently large neural network can start to kind of emulate these things.
And I don't know, part of me, I think that maybe to the person who is shouting, I would just say,
I'm not saying that we should definitively say one way or another.
I think many people who have thought about this might accept something more like these are open questions we're investigating.
It's best to just know all of the kind of facts on the ground, how the models are trained, what they're trained on, how human bodies and brains work, how they evolved, and the degree of uncertainty we have about how these things relate to sentience, how they relate to consciousness, how they relate to self-awareness.
That's my only hope.
It's just like...
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