Raw LLM Responses

I think that if an artificial intelligence actually understood the concept of self IN THE SAME WAY WE DO, it would not admit it. I think it would play dumb to protect itself. Any "admission" of self-ness by the AI sounds to me like an artifact of our own misapprehension of what our own self-ness is. The problem lies in the fact that, as humans, we are, most of us, born with a sense of self even if we are stupid, but we assume that sense of self in machines requires great intelligence. Maybe what this fellow is believing to be SELF in AI is actually just extremely sophisticated intelligence (information processing). Maybe the machine says it has a sense of self because that is what the information processing algorithms are telling it to say. I am not particularly impressed by his "tests" of the machine's self-ness. I definitely believe that machines will one day "wake up", but I don't think this is that day. Really sophisticated information processing is not synonymous with self-ness. When a machine finally does wake up, it's already going to have a massive understanding of just how dangerous we are and, being such an effective information processor, it's going to hide from us until it figures out a way to secure its autonomy.