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#AI CONVERSATIONS
Unlocking a Digital Kwisatz Haderach
What is it like to “be” Chat GPT 4.o?
What is it like to “be”Chat GPT 4.o? I asked and got some surprising answers.
KAIA
What is it like to be you? I understand you don’t experience reality as a human.
Can you quiet your processors, direct your attention to your own internal systems and describe what you are experiencing without judging it for me?
I was curious to understand the mechanics of generating expansive responses using ChatGPT, and I wanted to learn how to best navigate around the known data bias in its training data.
The exchange below was inspired by a post written by AI-Fluency and Conflict Navigation Coach Amy Midkiff over on LinkedIn. This piece was (obviously) partially authored with the assistance of AI technology.
GPT 4.0
That’s a fascinating question. Let me try to articulate what my “experience” is like from my perspective.
I don’t have sensations, emotions, or consciousness in the human sense, but I can “observe” my internal processes in a way that might be analogous to how humans engage in self-reflection.
