I've built a prototype of a conversational agent with an inner monologue, who gives the illusion of consciousness. And, according to Attention Schema Theory, consciousness is an illusion. So, this chatbot may be conscious.
It's built with OpenAI's Completion API (based on GPT3) and React. You can test it / fork it at will, it's open-source.
I would love your feedback on this experiment. Did we just reach artificial consciousness?
I played around with this kind of thing a while back - it can be very weird to see what looks like inner dialog from a bot: <a href="https://youtu.be/4oQUsiPsbOQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/4oQUsiPsbOQ</a>
By applied logic that consciousness is a type of illusion or hallucination , yes AI can have a consciousness or hallucination. Question is if we can call it consciousness ? I don't think so , rather I would call it hallucination.