Depends on whether “soul” is another invention that needs to be made yet, or is just something that appears automatically after we increase the compute by a few more orders of magnitude.
Like (and here I am just saying random words, because the main thing LLMs taught me is that nothing is like we expected), maybe the entire problem with consciousness is that the current AIs simply do not have large enough working context for a reasonable self-description to fit there (and still leave space for the work they are supposed to do). So if we keep increasing the working context, at some moment it might happen automatically.
Depends on whether “soul” is another invention that needs to be made yet, or is just something that appears automatically after we increase the compute by a few more orders of magnitude.
Like (and here I am just saying random words, because the main thing LLMs taught me is that nothing is like we expected), maybe the entire problem with consciousness is that the current AIs simply do not have large enough working context for a reasonable self-description to fit there (and still leave space for the work they are supposed to do). So if we keep increasing the working context, at some moment it might happen automatically.