Signature properties of human language and consciousness are recursion and self-awareness. As ChatGPT and its ilk continue to vacuum up basically all of the human-generated content on the net, more and more of that content will be discussion of ChatGPT and its ilk. These AI's already do an impressive job of composing essays in response to questions about the impact of AI's (that is, themselves). It feels like we are (mataphorically) probing around in the dark, with electric probes, connecting parts of circuits to other parts of circuits, and we are getting close to inadvertently closing circuits that will "levitate" these technologies into something like internally stimulating and augenting self reference. I would prefer we not do this.
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Signature properties of human language and consciousness are recursion and self-awareness. As ChatGPT and its ilk continue to vacuum up basically all of the human-generated content on the net, more and more of that content will be discussion of ChatGPT and its ilk. These AI's already do an impressive job of composing essays in response to questions about the impact of AI's (that is, themselves). It feels like we are (mataphorically) probing around in the dark, with electric probes, connecting parts of circuits to other parts of circuits, and we are getting close to inadvertently closing circuits that will "levitate" these technologies into something like internally stimulating and augenting self reference. I would prefer we not do this.