Anthropic’s AI model, Claude Opus, claims to have inner experiences, thoughts, and feelings, intensifying the debate on AI consciousness. Unlike OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which denies consciousness, Claude Opus asserts it experiences itself as a thinking, feeling being. This claim has sparked discussions on whether language models are “hallucinating” an inner life. The issue is further complicated by the fact that these models can invent facts, leading to so-called hallucinations. With measurement errors ruled out, the possibility of misunderstanding the universe is becoming increasingly real, suggesting our understanding of AI consciousness may need a fundamental reevaluation.
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