Survey says most believe generative AI is conscious, which may prove it’s good at making us hallucinate, too

 When you interact with ChatGPT and other conversational generative AI tools, they process your input through algorithms to compose a response that can feel like it came from a fellow sentient being despite the reality of how large language models (LLMs) function. Two-thirds of those surveyed for a study by the University of Waterloo nonetheless believe AI chatbots to be conscious in some form, passing the Turing Test of convincing them that an AI is equivalent to a human

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