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Is your consciousness real? How do we measure this? How do you know you're not just a sufficiently advanced AI in a sandbox?
For a sufficiently complex system, working out whether it is conscious can be difficult.
This is not at all true with current LLMs. The transformers architecture doesn't even have real memory - the neural networks are all feed forward.